颠倒 (顛倒)
diān dǎo
Pinyin

Definition

颠倒 (顛倒)
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diān dǎo
  1. to turn upside down
  2. to reverse
  3. back to front
  4. confused
  5. deranged
  6. crazy

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

倒
dǎo
  1. 1 to fall
  2. 2 to collapse
  3. 3 to lie horizontally
  4. 4 to overthrow
  5. 5 to fail
  6. 6 to go bankrupt
  7. 7 to change (trains or buses)
  8. 8 to move around
  9. 9 to resell at a profit
倒霉
dǎo méi
  1. 1 to have bad luck
  2. 2 to be out of luck
一边倒
yī biān dǎo
  1. 1 to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side
  2. 2 to support unconditionally
倒下
dǎo xià
  1. 1 to collapse
  2. 2 to topple over
倒地
dǎo dì
  1. 1 to fall to the ground

Idioms (20)

倒悬之危
dào xuán zhī wēi
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之急
dào xuán zhī jí
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之苦
dào xuán zhī kǔ
  1. 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒打一耙
dào dǎ yī pá
  1. 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. 2 to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
倒行逆施
dào xíng nì shī
  1. 1 to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong
  2. 2 to try to turn back history
  3. 3 a perverse way of doing things

Sample Sentences

你不知道，你外公现在说话语无伦次，脾气也很坏，动不动就骂人。而且动作也不协调，经常摔跤。作息时间也是日夜颠倒，他整夜不睡，我和你爸爸晚上也睡不好。我们白天又要上班，真是太累了。
nǐ bù zhīdào ，nǐ wàigōng xiànzài shuōhuà yǔwúlúncì ，píqì yě hěn huài ，dòng bu dòng jiù màrén 。érqiě dòngzuò yě bù xiétiáo ，jīngcháng shuāijiāo 。zuòxī shíjiān yě shì rìyè diāndào ，tā zhěng yè bù shuì ，wǒ hé nǐ bàba wǎnshang yě shuìbuhǎo 。wǒmen báitiān yòu yào shàngbān ，zhēn shì tài lèi le 。
You don’t understand, your grandfather’s speech is incoherent now, and he’s really irritable, he shouts at people over the slightest thing. His movements aren’t coordinated and he falls over all the time. His sleep patterns are all messed up as well, he sleeps all day and doesn’t sleep at all at night, so your dad and I can’t get enough sleep. We both have to work during the day, it’s exhausting.
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是啊，我就是喜欢她这种个性，现在我简直为她神魂颠倒了，所以我决定向她求婚！
shì a ，wǒ jiùshì xǐhuan tā zhèzhǒng gèxìng ，xiànzài wǒ jiǎnzhí wèi tā shénhúndiāndǎo le ，suǒyǐ wǒ juédìng xiàng tā qiúhūn ！
Yeah. She's the kind of disposition I like and now I am simply head over heals in love with her, so I've decided to propose to her!
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