倒立
dào lì
Pinyin
Definition
倒立
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- a handstand
- to turn upside down
- to stand on one's head
- upside down
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to fall
- 2 to collapse
- 3 to lie horizontally
- 4 to overthrow
- 5 to fail
- 6 to go bankrupt
- 7 to change (trains or buses)
- 8 to move around
- 9 to resell at a profit
- 1 to have bad luck
- 2 to be out of luck
- 1 independent
- 2 independence
- 3 to stand alone
- 1 forthwith
- 2 immediate
- 3 prompt
- 4 promptly
- 5 straightway
- 6 thereupon
- 7 at once
- 1 immediately
Idioms (20)
三十而立
- 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
倒悬之危
- 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits
倒悬之急
- 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits
倒悬之苦
- 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits
倒打一耙
- 1 lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
- 2 to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)