| 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 |
| 打倒 | dǎ dǎo | to overthrow; to knock down; Down with... ! |
| 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 |
| 颠倒 | diān dǎo | to turn upside-down; to reverse; back-to-front; confused; deranged; crazy |
| 压倒 | yā dǎo | overwhelming; overpower |
| 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.) |
| 投机倒把 | tóu jī dǎo bǎ | speculation and profiteering (idiom); buying and selling on speculation |
| 反倒 | fǎn dào | but on the contrary; but expectedly |
| 倒霉 | dǎo méi | have bad luck; be out of luck |
| 推倒 | tuī dǎo | to push over; to overthrow |
| 倾倒 | qīng dǎo | to topple over; to greatly admire |
| 倾倒 | qīng dào | to dump; to pour; to empty out |
| 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 |
| 吓倒 | xià dǎo | to be frightened |
| 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 |
| 跌倒 | diē dǎo | to tumble; to fall; fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business) |
| 倒闭 | dǎo bì | to go bankrupt; to close down |
| 驳倒 | bó dǎo | to refute; to demolish (an argument, theory etc) |
| 摔倒 | shuāi dǎo | to fall down; to slip and fall; a throw (in wrestling) |
| 倒车 | dǎo chē | to change buses, trains etc |
| 倒车 | dào chē | to reverse (a vehicle); to drive backwards |
| 颠倒黑白 | diān dǎo hēi bái | lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts; to invert right and wrong |
| 倒流 | dào liú | to flow backwards; reverse flow |
| 倒戈 | dǎo gē | to change sides in a war; turncoat |
| 拉倒 | lā dǎo | lit. pull and fall; (coll.) the deal is off; forget about it!; let it go at that! |
| 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 |
| 颠倒是非 | diān dǎo shì fēi | to invert right and wrong |
| 倒楣 | dǎo méi | to be out of luck |
| 病倒 | bìng dǎo | be down with an illness; be laid up |
| 跪倒 | guì dǎo | to kneel down; to sink to one's knees; to grovel |
| 倒反 | dào fǎn | instead; on the contrary; contrary (to expectations) |
| 排山倒海 | pái shān dǎo hǎi | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering; fig. gigantic; of spectacular significance |
| 晕倒 | yūn dǎo | to faint; to swoon; to black out; to become unconscious |
| 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 |
| 一面倒 | yī miàn dǎo | one-sided; lopsided; unanimous; overwhelming majority |
