dào fǎn tiān gāngdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
variant of 倒反天綱|倒反天纲[dào fǎn tiān gāng]
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Original source entry:

倒反天罡 倒反天罡 [dao4 fan3 tian1 gang1] /variant of 倒反天綱|倒反天纲[dao4 fan3 tian1 gang1]/

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Reference information

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Character information

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  • 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

  • 反
    fǎn

    contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fǎn qiè] phonetic system

  • 天
    tiān

    day / sky / heaven

  • 罡
    gāng

    stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper

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