顛倒

Chinese

	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)	顛	倒
simp. (颠倒)	颠	倒
alternative forms	顛踱／颠踱 (thian-tho̍h)

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diāndǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢㄉㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): din¹ dou²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tiên-to / tiên-tó
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thian-tho̍h

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diāndǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢㄉㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: diandǎo
  - Wade–Giles: tien¹-tao³
  - Yale: dyān-dǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diandao
  - Palladius: дяньдао (djanʹdao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: din¹ dou²
  - Yale: dīn dóu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: din¹ dou²
  - Guangdong Romanization: din¹ dou²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn⁵⁵ tou̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tiên-to / tiên-tó
  - Hakka Romanization System: dien^ˊ do / dien^ˊ do^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: dian¹ do⁴ / dian¹ do³
  - Sinological IPA: /ti̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ to⁵⁵/, /ti̯en²⁴ to³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-tho̍h
  - Tâi-lô: thian-tho̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tientoih
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² tʰoʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ tʰoʔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² tʰoʔ¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰoʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰɤʔ⁴/

Middle Chinese: ten tawX

Rime
Character	顛	倒
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	I
Fanqie	都年切	都晧切
Baxter	ten	tawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ten/	/tɑu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ten/	/tɑu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛn/	/tɑu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛn/	/taw^X/
Li Rong	/ten/	/tɑu^X/
Wang Li	/tien/	/tɑu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/tien/	/tɑu^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diān	dǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	din¹	dou²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤi tˤawʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*tiːn taːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	顛	倒
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diān	dǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ ten ›	‹ taw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁi/	/*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. * 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	顛	倒
Reading #	1/2	1/2
No.	17038	2114
Phonetic component	眞	刀
Rime group	眞	宵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	顚	倒
Old Chinese	/*tiːn/	/*taːwʔ/
Notes		見漢賦

Verb

顛倒

(literal) to turn upside-down; to reverse; to be topsy-turvy
- 東方未晞，顛倒裳衣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  东方未晞，颠倒裳衣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Dōngfāng wèi xī, diāndǎo chángyī.
  Before there was a streak of dawn in the east,
  I was putting on my clothes upside down.
(figurative) to be confused; to be deranged; to go crazy; to be chaotic; to be disorderly; to fool around; to behave irrationally or frivolously
(literary) to be overthrown; to be overturned
- 訊予不顧，顛倒思予。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  讯予不顾，颠倒思予。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Xùn yǔ bùgù, diāndǎo sī yǔ.
  I admonish him, but he will not regard me;
  When he is overthrown, he will think of me.

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (顛倒):

→ Japanese: 顛倒(てんとう) (tentō)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diāndǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢㄉㄠˇ
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): tiên-to

(Hailu, HRS): dien^ˋ do^ˇ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tian-tó / tian-tò

(Teochew, Peng'im): ding¹ do³ / dêng¹ do³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diāndǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢㄉㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: diandǎo
  - Wade–Giles: tien¹-tao³
  - Yale: dyān-dǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diandao
  - Palladius: дяньдао (djanʹdao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tiên-to
  - Hakka Romanization System: dien^ˊ do
  - Hagfa Pinyim: dian¹ do⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ti̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ to⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: dien^ˋ do^ˇ
  - Sinological IPA: /tien⁵³ to¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tian-tó
  - Tâi-lô: tian-tó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diendoir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn³³ to⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² to⁵³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tian-tò
  - Tâi-lô: tian-tò
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diendoix
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tɤ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ to¹¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ding¹ do³ / dêng¹ do³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ting tò / teng tò
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ³³⁻²³ to²¹³/, /teŋ³³⁻²³ to²¹³/

Note: dêng1 do3 - Jieyang.

Conjunction

顛倒

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

References

“Entry #12931”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
“Entry #12932”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
顛	倒
てん Hyōgai	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】

a fall, overturning, a tumble

to fall, to overturn

to be upset

to be reversed

(This term, 顛倒, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

顛倒

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