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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 倒插门

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
倒插门 dào chā mén - to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 97,647 54,703

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
dǎo- 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
dào- to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
- to pour out
- to tip out; to dump
- inverted; upside down; reversed
- to go backward
- contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
chā- to insert
- stick in
- pierce
- to take part in
- to interfere
- to interpose
chā- old variant of 插[cha1]
mén- surname Men
mén- gate
- door
- CL:扇[shan4]
- gateway
- doorway
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- opening
- valve
- switch
- way to do something
- knack
- family
- house
- (religious) sect
- school (of thought)
- class
- category
- phylum or division (taxonomy)
- classifier for large guns
- classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
- (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Other Words Containing 倒插门

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo