dào, dǎo
fall over
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 到 represents the sound.
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Moderndào
fall over; lie down; take turns; to place upside down; to invert; to pour; to throw out; to move backwards; however; actually; as a matter of fact; contrary to expectation
dǎo
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to overthrow; to fail; to go bankrupt; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to invert | ||
actually | ||
to have bad luck | ||
to count down | ||
to collapse |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤawʔ | tawX | dǎo | turn upside down (v.i.) |
*tˤawʔ-s | tawH | dào | turn over, invert; pour |
HSK level 2
Appears in 71.8084% of movies
557th most common character in movies
608th most common character in books
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5012 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“倒，仆也。从人，到聲。” |
