| 倒 | dǎo | to fall; to collapse; to topple; to fail; to go bankrupt; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to sell; to speculate (buying and selling, also 捣); profiteer |
| 倒 | dào | upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted |
| 倒是 | dào shi | contrary to what one might expect; actually; contrariwise; why don't you |
| 倒退 | dào tuì | to fall back; to go in reverse |
| 倒伏 | dǎo fú | (of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat |
| 倒数 | dào shǔ | to count backwards (from 10 down to 0); to count down; from the bottom (lines on a page); from the back (rows of seats) |
| 倒数 | dào shù | inverse number; reciprocal (math.) |
| 倒霉 | dǎo méi | have bad luck; be out of luck |
| 倒立 | dào lì | a handstand; to turn upside-down; to stand on one's head; upside-down |
| 倒行逆施 | dào xíng nì shī | to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong; to try to turn back history; a perverse way of doing things |
| 倒塌 | dǎo tā | to collapse (of building); to topple over |
| 倒转 | dào zhuǎn | to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head |
| 倒闭 | dǎo bì | to go bankrupt; to close down |
| 倒车 | dǎo chē | to change buses, trains etc |
| 倒车 | dào chē | to reverse (a vehicle); to drive backwards |
| 倒流 | dào liú | to flow backwards; reverse flow |
| 倒戈 | dǎo gē | to change sides in a war; turncoat |
| 倒置 | dào zhì | to invert |
| 倒影 | dào yǐng | inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside-down) |
| 倒台 | dǎo tái | to overthrow; downfall; to fall from power; to go bankrupt |
| 倒楣 | dǎo méi | to be out of luck |
| 倒反 | dào fǎn | instead; on the contrary; contrary (to expectations) |
| 倒换 | dǎo huàn | to take turns; to rotate (responsibility) |
| 倒把 | dǎo bǎ | to play the market; to speculate (on financial markets); to profiteer |
| 倒放 | dào fàng | to turn upside down; to upend |
| 倒灌 | dào guàn | to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc); reverse flow; to back up (sewage) |
| 倒卖 | dǎo mài | to resell at a profit; to speculate |
| 倒悬 | dào xuán | lit. to hang upside down; fig. in dire straits |
| 倒爷 | dǎo yé | profiteer; wheeler dealer; tradesman who buys low and sell high |
| 倒腾 | dǎo teng | to move; to shift; to exchange; to buy and sell; peddling |
| 倒下 | dǎo xià | to collapse; to topple over |
| 倒休 | dǎo xiū | to shift holidays, taking a weekday off |
| 倒位 | dǎo wèi | inversion |
| 倒仓 | dǎo cāng | to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it); voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty) |
| 倒像 | dào xiàng | inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside-down) |
| 倒刺 | dào cì | barb; barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook) |
| 倒吊蜡烛 | dào diào là zhú | Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo) |
| 倒噍 | dǎo jiào | to ruminate (of cows) |
| 倒嚼 | dǎo jiáo | to ruminate (of cows) |
| 倒坍 | dǎo tān | to collapse (of building) |
| 倒写 | dào xiě | mirror writing; upside down writing |
| 倒帐 | dǎo zhàng | dead loan; bad debts; to refuse to pay loan |
| 倒带 | dào dài | rewind (media player) |
| 倒序 | dǎo xù | in the reverse order |
| 倒座儿 | dào zuòr | the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院 |
| 倒弄 | dǎo nòng | to move (things around); to buy and sell at a profit (derog.) |
| 倒彩 | dào cǎi | adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake |
| 倒悬之危 | dào xuán zhī wēi | lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; dire straits |
| 倒悬之急 | dào xuán zhī jí | lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; dire straits |
| 倒悬之苦 | dào xuán zhī kǔ | lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; dire straits |
