倒贴 (dào tiē) — to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money) · Chinese · Nantoka

dào tiē

Traditional: 倒貼

倒贴 (dào tiē) is a Chinese word meaning “to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)”.

Meanings

1to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)

Characters in 倒贴

倒dǎo · to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally 贴tiē · to stick

Related words

倒to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally 倒to invert; to place upside down or frontside back 贴to stick 倒霉to have bad luck 倒数to count backwards (from 10 down to 0)倒数inverse number 倒下to collapse 摔倒to fall down 倒是contrary to what one might expect 打倒to overthrow 体贴considerate (of other people's needs)贴心intimate

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