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倒吊蜡烛

dào diào là zhúdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

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Original source entry:

倒吊蠟燭 倒吊蜡烛 [dao4 diao4 la4 zhu2] /Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)/

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Other forms in these source records: 倒吊蠟燭

  • 倒
    dǎo

    to fall / to collapse / to lie horizontally / to fail / to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit

    dào

    to invert / to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out / to dump / inverted / upside down / reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect / but / yet

  • 吊
    diào

    to suspend / to hang up / to hang a person / a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with

  • 蜡
    là

    candle / wax

  • 烛
    zhú

    candle / (literary) to illuminate

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