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倒闭

dǎo bì

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 倒閉

What 倒闭 means

1. to go bankrupt
2. to close down

The characters in 倒闭

• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 闭bìto close; to stop up; to shut

Example sentences

• 许多小公司倒闭了。
  Xǔduō xiǎo gōngsī dǎobì le.
  Many small companies went bankrupt.
• 公司很快就要倒闭了。
  Gōngsī hěn kuài jiùyào dǎobì le.
  The company will soon go bankrupt.
• 公司由于缺乏资本倒闭了。
  Gōngsī yóuyú quēfá zīběn dǎobì le.
  The firm went under due to lack of capital.
• 公司倒闭了。我们遣散了所有员工。
  The company went bankrupt. We laid off all of the employees.

Sounds the same

Read dǎo bì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 倒毙to fall dead