Chinese symbol for “fall”
倒
dǎo
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fall is 倒 (dǎo), defined as: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “fall”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 掉 | diào | to fall; to drop |
| 下跌 | xià diē | to fall; to tumble |
| 跌 | diē | to fall; to tumble |
| 落下 | luò xià | to fall; to drop |
| 衰落 | shuāi luò | to fall; to drop |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 倒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打倒 | dǎ dǎo | to overthrow; to knock down |
| 倒闭 (倒閉) | dǎo bì | to go bankrupt; to close down |
| 倒霉 | dǎo méi | to have bad luck; to be out of luck |
| 倒退 | dào tuì | to fall back; to go in reverse |
| 倒数 (倒數) | dào shǔ | to count backwards (from 10 down to 0); to count down |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fall”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.