倒置

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 install; to place; to put
simp. and trad. (倒置)		倒	置

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàozhì

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˋ ㄓˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou² zi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàozhì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˋ ㄓˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàojhìh
    • Wade–Giles: tao⁴-chih⁴
    • Yale: dàu-jr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dawjyh
    • Palladius: даочжи (daočži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou² zi³
    • Yale: dóu ji
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou² dzi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou² ji³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³⁵ t͡siː³³/

Verb

倒置

1. to place upside down; to invert
2. (grammar) to invert (the word order)

Synonyms

• (to place upside down): (Hokkien) 倒吊 (dàodiào)

Derived terms

• 倒置干戈
• 倒置法 (dàozhìfǎ)
• 先後倒置 / 先后倒置
• 冠履倒置
• 本末倒置 (běnmòdàozhì)
• 沒張倒置 / 没张倒置
• 賢奸倒置
• 輕重倒置 / 轻重倒置

Japanese

Kanji in this term
倒	置
とう Grade: S	ち Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) とーち [tòóchí] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) とーち [tóꜜòchì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [to̞ːt͡ɕi]

Noun

倒(とう)置(ち) • (tōchi) ^{←たうち (tauti)?}

1. inversion, reversed placing
2. (grammar) inversion

Synonyms

• (grammar): 倒置法(とうちほう) (tōchihō)

Verb

倒(とう)置(ち)する • (tōchi suru) ^{←たうち (tauti)?}suru (stem 倒(とう)置(ち)し (tōchi shi), past 倒(とう)置(ち)した (tōchi shita))

1. to invert, to place reversed
2. (grammar) to invert

Conjugation

Conjugation of "倒置する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	倒置し	とうちし	tōchi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	倒置し	とうちし	tōchi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	倒置する	とうちする	tōchi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	倒置する	とうちする	tōchi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	倒置すれ	とうちすれ	tōchi sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	倒置せよ¹ 倒置しろ²	とうちせよ¹ とうちしろ²	tōchi seyo¹ tōchi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	倒置される	とうちされる	tōchi sareru
Causative	倒置させる 倒置さす	とうちさせる とうちさす	tōchi saseru tōchi sasu
Potential	倒置できる	とうちできる	tōchi dekiru
Volitional	倒置しよう	とうちしよう	tōchi shiyō
Negative	倒置しない	とうちしない	tōchi shinai
Negative continuative	倒置せず	とうちせず	tōchi sezu
Formal	倒置します	とうちします	tōchi shimasu
Perfective	倒置した	とうちした	tōchi shita
Conjunctive	倒置して	とうちして	tōchi shite
Hypothetical conditional	倒置すれば	とうちすれば	tōchi sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

• “倒置”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026