倒灶

dǎozào
  1. to fall (from power)
  2. in decline
  3. unlucky

CEDICT

  1. (dialectal) to collapse; to fall; to decline (in status or wealth)
  2. (dialectal) unlucky; out of luck
  3. to collapse; to fall; to decline (in status or wealth)
  4. unlucky; out of luck

Wiktionary

倒楣、時運不濟。《蕩寇志．第二五回》：「那鐵算盤恐人看出破綻，也故意做出那倒灶行徑。」也作「倒造」、「搗槽」。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 倒 dǎo
  1. to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
  2. to fail; to go bankrupt
  3. to overthrow
  4. to change (trains or buses)
  5. to move around
  6. to resell at a profit
=2 灶 zào
  1. kitchen stove
  2. kitchen; mess; canteen
=2 灶 zào variant of 灶 zào

Related entries

下墜 xiàzhuì
  1. (of objects) to fall
  2. to drop
  3. to droop
  4. (medicine) to experience tenesmus
下挫 xiàcuò
  1. (of sales, prices etc) to fall
  2. to drop
  3. decline
  4. slump
下跌 xiàdiē
  1. to fall
  2. to tumble
股價下跌了。

Stock prices dropped.

Source: Tatoeba

墜 zhuì
  1. to fall
  2. to drop
  3. to weigh down
你的靈魂已墜進了地獄。

Your soul has been condemned to hell.

Source: Tatoeba

掉 diào
  1. to fall
  2. to drop
  3. to lag behind
  4. to lose
  5. to go missing
  6. to reduce
  7. fall (in prices)
  8. to lose (value, weight etc)
  9. to wag
  10. to swing
  11. to turn
  12. to change
  13. to exchange
  14. to swap
  15. to show off
  16. to shed (hair)
  17. (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
釦子掉了。

The button came off.

Source: Tatoeba

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