颠倒

颠倒 diāndǎo in a sentence

Inverts (reversed)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

颠倒 (diāndǎo) means Inverts (reversed). Below are 2 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

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

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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How is 颠倒 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 颠倒 (diāndǎo, "Inverts (reversed)"), 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.

Is 颠倒 an HSK word?

Yes — 颠倒 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 颠倒?

The dictionary page for 颠倒 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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