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颠倒

diān dǎo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 顛倒

颠倒 (diān dǎo) means "to turn upside down; to reverse; back to front". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 颠倒 means

1. to turn upside down
2. to reverse
3. back to front
4. confused
5. deranged
6. crazy

The characters in 颠倒

• 颠diāntop (of the head); apex; to fall forwards
• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow

Example sentences

• 她被他迷得神魂颠倒。
  Tā bèi tā mí de shénhúndiāndǎo.
  She's completely crazy about him.
• 高岛平时虽然一副很帅气的样子，但是在他女友面前却是一副神魂颠倒的样子。
  Gāo dǎo píngshí suīrán yī fù hěn shuàiqi de yàngzi, dànshì zài tā nǚyǒu miànqián quèshì yī fù shénhúndiāndǎo de yàngzi.
  Gao Dao is usually really suave, but he seems completely smitten in front of his girlfriend.

Words starting with 颠倒

• 颠倒黑白diān dǎo hēi báilit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately…
• 颠倒是非diān dǎo shì fēi(idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead

Words containing 颠倒

• 神魂颠倒shén hún diān dǎolit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love…

Where 颠倒 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dēng–dǐ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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