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倒挂

dào guà

2-character word Traditional 倒掛

What 倒挂 means

1. lit. to hang upside down
2. fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods)
3. to borrow more than one can ever repay

The characters in 倒挂

• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead

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