漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
倒: overthrow, fall
Also: collapse, drop, break down
JLPT N310 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 到 gives the sound
10 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
トウtou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 倒産するとうさんするgo bankrupt (corporate)
- 転倒するてんとうするtumble, fall down, be upset
- 卒倒するそっとうするfaint [v.i.]
- 打倒するだとうするknockdown, overthrow
- 圧倒するあっとうするoverwhelm
- 面倒なめんどうなtiresome
- 面倒臭いめんどうくさいtiresome
たおれるtaoreru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 倒れるたおれるcollapse, fall down [v.i.]
たおすtaosu · kun'yomi
- 倒すたおすbeat, knock down [v.t.]
Also read -だおれ, さかさま, さかさ, さかしま, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side倒 overthrow · 亻 + 到
vs致 doth · 至 + 攵In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dào
Same form: 倒 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 倒 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 倒 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dào most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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