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倒贴

dào tiē

2-character word Traditional 倒貼

What 倒贴 means

1. to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)

The characters in 倒贴

• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 贴tiēto stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dào tiē correctly.
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