to reverse cause and effect; to put the horse before the cart
trad. 倒果為因
Also written 倒果為因【dào guǒ wéi yīn】
Characters in this word
4倒
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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
- Pinyin
- dǎo
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 578 of 2500
果
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fruit, result, resolute, indeed, if really
- Pinyin
- guǒ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 9772 of 2500
为
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as (in the capacity of), to take sth as, to act as, to serve as, to behave as, to become, to be, to do, by (in the passive voice)
- Pinyin
- wéi
- Traditional
- 為
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 129 of 2500
因
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old variant of 因[yin1]
- Pinyin
- yīn
- Traditional
- 囙
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1342 of 2500