顛倒

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Chinese[edit]

inverted; jolt; top
 
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
trad. (顛倒)
simp. (颠倒)

Pronunciation 1[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (5) (5)
Final () (85) (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV I
Fanqie
Baxter ten tawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ten/ /tɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ten/ /tɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɛn/ /tɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛn/ /tawX/
Li
Rong
/ten/ /tɑuX/
Wang
Li
/tien/ /tɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tien/ /tɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diān dǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
din1 dou2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
diān dǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ ten › ‹ tawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁi[n]/ /*tˁawʔ/
English top turn upside down (v.i.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/2
No. 17038 2114
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tiːn/ /*taːwʔ/
Notes

Verb[edit]

顛倒

  1. (literal) to turn upside-down; to reverse; to be topsy-turvy
  2. (figurative) to be confused; to be deranged; to go crazy; to be chaotic; to be disorderly; to fool around; to behave irrationally or frivolously
  3. (literary) to be overthrown; to be overturned
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Sino-Xenic (顛倒):
  • Japanese: 顛倒(てんとう) (tentō)

Pronunciation 2[edit]


Conjunction[edit]

顛倒

  1. (literary or Taiwanese Hakka, Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien, Teochew) instead; on the contrary
  2. (literary) only

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
てん
Hyōgaiji
とう
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
顚倒 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 顛倒 – see the following entry.
転倒てんとう
[noun] a fall, overturning, a tumble
[verb] to fall, to overturn
[verb] to be upset
[verb] to be reversed
(This term, 顛倒, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)