Chinese symbol for “invert”
倒
dào
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for invert is 倒 (dào), defined as: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “invert”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 倒置 | dào zhì | to invert |
| 翻转 (翻轉) | fān zhuǎn | to roll; to turn over |
| 反转 (反轉) | fǎn zhuǎn | reversal; inversion |
| 倒装 (倒裝) | dào zhuāng | (linguistics) to invert (word order) |
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 |
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.