倒貼

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	to stick; to paste; to keep close to to stick; to paste; to keep close to; to fit snugly; subsidize; allowance
trad. (倒貼)		倒	貼
simp. (倒贴)		倒	贴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàotiē

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˋ ㄊㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou³ tip³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tò-thiap

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàotiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˋ ㄊㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàotie
    • Wade–Giles: tao⁴-tʻieh¹
    • Yale: dàu-tyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dawtie
    • Palladius: даоте (daote)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou³ tip³
    • Yale: dou tip
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou³ tip⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou³ tib³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³³ tʰiːp̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tò-thiap
    • Tâi-lô: tò-thiap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doirtiab
    • IPA (Xiamen): /to²¹⁻⁵³ tʰiap̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /to⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰiap̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /to²¹⁻⁵³ tʰiap̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /to¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰiap̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɤ²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰiap̚³²/

Verb

倒貼

1. to pay instead of getting paid; to have to put in resources when one expected to be on the receiving end
2. (figurative, of a girl) to lower her dignity and woo a guy
3. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to lose money; to make a loss

Synonyms

• (to lose money):

• 了去 (Hokkien)
• 了大空 (Hokkien)
• 了本 (Hokkien)
• 了錢／了钱 (Hokkien)
• 倒篷頭／倒篷头 (¹tau ⁶bon-deu) (Wu)
• 塌本 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 打出本 (Hakka)
• 折本 (shéběn)
• 折錢／折钱
• 虧損／亏损 (kuīsǔn)
• 虧本／亏本 (kuīběn)
• 蝕本／蚀本 (shíběn)
• 貼本／贴本 (Hokkien, Xiang)
• 賠本／赔本 (péiběn)