倒立

Chinese

		upset; turn over; to tip upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted; to fall; to collapse; to topple; to change; to fail; bankrupt	set up; to stand
simp. and trad. (倒立)		倒	立

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàolì

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˋ ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou² laap⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tó-li̍p

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàolì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˋ ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàolì
    • Wade–Giles: tao⁴-li⁴
    • Yale: dàu-lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dawlih
    • Palladius: даоли (daoli)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou² laap⁶
    • Yale: dóu laahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou² laap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou² lab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³⁵ laːp̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tó-li̍p
    • Tâi-lô: tó-li̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doylip
    • IPA (Xiamen): /to⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lip̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /to⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lip̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /to⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lip̚²⁴/

Verb

倒立

1. (of an object) to be upside down
2. (of a person) to stand on one's hands or head; to do a handstand

Synonyms

• (to be upside down): (Hokkien) 徛倒吊, 倒吊
• (to do a handstand):

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		倒立, 拿大頂, 拿頂
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	倒立
Cantonese	Guangzhou	倒豎蔥, 倒掟頭
	Hong Kong	倒豎蔥, 倒立
Hakka	Meixian	𤊶翻企, 𤊶倒企, 縱直竹
Southern Min	Xiamen	徛飛魚, 倒栽
	Quanzhou	徛飛魚
	Zhangzhou	徛騰
	Tainan	倒栽, 倒頭徛
	Shantou	顛倒徛, 顛倒頭
Wu	Shanghai	丁倒立, 豎蜻蜓, 豎煙囪
	Shanghai (Jiading)	頂倒裡立, 豎蜻蜓, 頂倒爬

Dialectal synonyms of 倒立 (“to do a handstand; to stand upside down”) [map]