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倒轉

简倒转 · 繁倒轉

Mandarin · pinyin dào zhuǎn#

to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head

Mandarin · pinyin dào zhuàn#

(of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse
Taiwan pr. dàozhuǎn

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倒: dào · fall over; lie down; take turns
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转: zhuǎn · shift, move, turn

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4–3 · dao4 zhuan3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

dou3 zyun3

Cantonese word readings for 倒轉. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

(colloquial) to be the other way around
(Sichuanese) to be inverted; to be upside down
(Southern Min) to return; to come or go back

adv

(dialectal) contrary to reason or one's expectation

verb

to turn in the opposite direction; to reverse

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