to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)
trad. 倒貼
Also written 倒貼【dào tiē】
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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
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
贴
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to stick, to paste, to post (e.g. on a blog), to keep close to, to fit snugly, to subsidize, allowance (e.g. money for food or housing), sticker, classifier for sticking plaster: strip
- Pinyin
- tiē
- Traditional
- 貼
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 4447 of 2500