He fell backward.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
跌倒
to tumble
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to tumble
02
to fall
03
fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 跌倒 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 跌倒 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom took a step back and fell.
He fell and hurt his hand.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 跌倒.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 跌倒.
Directly before
- 他跌倒3
- 哪里跌倒1
- 后跌倒1
- 一步跌倒1
- 有人跌倒1
Directly after
- 跌倒了3
- 跌倒弄伤1
- 跌倒的1
- 跌倒时1
- 跌倒哪里1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 跌倒
What does 跌倒 mean in Chinese?
跌倒 (diēdǎo) means to tumble.
How do you pronounce 跌倒?
跌倒 is pronounced diēdǎo.
Is 跌倒 an HSK word?
跌倒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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