倒貼

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 stick; to paste; to keep close to to stick; to paste; to keep close to; to fit snugly; subsidize; allowance
trad. (倒貼)		倒	貼
simp. (倒贴)		倒	贴

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàotiē

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˋ ㄊㄧㄝ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dou³ tip³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tò-thiap

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàotiē
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˋ ㄊㄧㄝ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàotie
  - Wade–Giles: tao⁴-tʻieh¹
  - Yale: dàu-tyē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dawtie
  - Palladius: даоте (daote)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dou³ tip³
  - Yale: dou tip
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dou³ tip⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: dou³ tib³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³³ tʰiːp̚³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tò-thiap
  - Tâi-lô: tò-thiap
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doirtiab
  - IPA (Xiamen): /to²¹⁻⁵³ tʰiap̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /to⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰiap̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /to²¹⁻⁵³ tʰiap̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /to¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰiap̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɤ²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰiap̚³²/

Verb

倒貼

to pay instead of getting paid; to have to put in resources when one expected to be on the receiving end
(figurative, of a girl) to lower her dignity and woo a guy
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to lose money; to make a loss

Synonyms

(to lose money):

了去 (Hokkien)
了大空 (Hokkien)
了本 (Hokkien)
了錢／了钱 (Hokkien)
倒篷頭／倒篷头 (⁵tau ⁶bon-deu) (Wu)
塌本 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
打出本 (Hakka)
折本 (shéběn)
折錢／折钱
虧損／亏损 (kuīsǔn)
虧本／亏本 (kuīběn)
蝕本／蚀本 (shíběn)
貼本／贴本 (Hokkien, Xiang)
賠本／赔本 (péiběn)

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