倒 dào▶ to pour (倒茶; 倒水)

Example sentences

• 请给我倒一杯水。Qǐng gěi wǒ dào yì bēi shuǐ.Please pour me a glass of water.
• 这个字写倒了。Zhège zì xiě dào le.This character is written upside down.

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HSK 4 — upper-intermediate proficiency: 600 new words, 1,200 in all. You can converse fluently on a wide range of topics with native speakers. In HSK 3.0, 倒 is in band 2. HSK 4 explained

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中倒means to pour, as with tea or water. When you'd like someone to fill your glass, you can say this.

中请给我倒一杯水。

Please pour me a glass of water. Want to try it out loud?

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Stroke order

倒 is written in 10 strokes.

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Senses

1. to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
2. to pour out
3. to tip out; to dump
4. inverted; upside down; reversed
5. to go backward
6. contrary to what one might expect; but; yet

Related words

• 倒霉unlucky, bad luck
• 摔倒fall
• 倒闭to close down, go bankrupt
• 颠倒upside down, inverted; to invert

倒 is pronounced dào and means “to pour (倒茶; 倒水)”.