倒 (dǎo) means Turn over (pour). Below are 20 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
风太大，自行车 倒 了。
Fēng tài dà, zìxíngchē dǎo le.
The wind was too strong and the bicycle fell over.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 倒
他还没 倒 过时差。
Tā hái méi dǎo guò shíchā.
He has not got over the jetlag yet.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 时差
路上滑，当心摔 倒 。
Lù shàng huá, dāngxīn shuāi dǎo.
The road is slippery; watch out you do not fall.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 当心
他失去了平衡摔 倒 了。
Tā shīqù le pínghéng shuāi dǎo le.
He lost his balance and fell.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 平衡
地上有水，小心摔 倒 。
Dì shàng yǒu shuǐ, xiǎoxīn shuāidǎo.
There is water on the floor; be careful not to slip.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 摔倒
那家书店去年 倒 闭了。
Nà jiā shūdiàn qùnián dǎobì le.
That bookshop went out of business last year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 倒闭
请把菜渣 倒 进垃圾桶。
Qǐng bǎ cài zhā dào jìn lājītǒng.
Please tip the food scraps into the bin.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 渣
今天真 倒 霉，钱包丢了。
Jīntiān zhēn dǎoméi, qiánbāo diū le.
What bad luck today, I lost my wallet.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 倒霉
他觉得自己最近很 倒 霉。
Tā juéde zìjǐ zuìjìn hěn dǎoméi.
He feels he has been unlucky lately.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 倒霉
这两个字的顺序颠 倒 了。
Zhè liǎng ge zì de shùnxù diāndǎo le.
The order of these two characters has been reversed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 颠倒
重心太高，箱子容易 倒 。
Zhòngxīn tài gāo, xiāngzi róngyì dǎo.
With too high a centre of gravity the box easily topples.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 重心
倒 下的大树阻碍了交通。
Dǎo xià de dà shù zǔ'ài le jiāotōng.
The fallen tree blocked the traffic.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 阻碍
他滑了一下，还好没摔 倒 。
Tā huá le yíxià, hái hǎo méi shuāi dǎo.
He slipped, but luckily did not fall.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 滑
老人摔 倒 了，大家去扶他。
Lǎorén shuāidǎo le, dàjiā qù fú tā.
The old man fell and everyone went to help him up.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 摔倒
他打开一罐豆子 倒 进锅里。
Tā dǎkāi yí guàn dòuzi dào jìn guō lǐ.
He opened a can of beans and tipped them into the pot.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 罐
地上有冰，走路容易溜 倒 。
Dì shang yǒu bīng, zǒulù róngyì liū dǎo.
There is ice on the ground and it is easy to slip over.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 溜
经营不善使这家工厂濒临 倒 闭。
Jīngyíng bú shàn shǐ zhè jiā gōngchǎng bīnlín dǎobì.
Poor management has brought this factory to the brink of closure.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 倒闭
他把黑白颠 倒 ，说得好像自己没错。
Tā bǎ hēi bái diāndǎo, shuō de hǎoxiàng zìjǐ méi cuò.
He turned black into white and made it sound as if he were blameless.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 颠倒
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From the graded readers
我一低头就摔 倒 了。
wǒ yī dītóu jiù shuāidǎo le / liǎo / liào.
Every time I looked down, I fell.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
Words that contain 倒
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 倒
How is 倒 used in a sentence?
This page shows 20 sentences using 倒 (dǎo, "Turn over (pour)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 倒 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 倒 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 倒 an HSK word?
Yes — 倒 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 倒?
The dictionary page for 倒 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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