倒转

倒轉
dàozhuǎn
to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head

CEDICT

  1. (Sichuanese) to be inverted; to be upside down
  2. (colloquial) to be the other way around
  3. (dialectal) contrary to reason or one's expectation
  4. contrary to reason or one's expectation
  5. to be inverted; to be upside down
  6. to be the other way around

Wiktionary

  1. 互相掉换。
  2. 反而。

重編國語辭典

  1. 互相掉换
  2. 反倒，反而
  3. 返回；回去

維基詞典

Homographs

倒转 dàozhuàn
  1. (of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse
  2. Taiwan pr. dàozhuǎn

Examples

你右边袜子倒转穿了。

You have your right sock on wrong side out.

Source: Tatoeba

他实在有点不能相信，堂堂一个大画家的杰作，居然会被上下倒转地挂在牆上。

He was surprised to find the great artist's masterpiece hung on the wall upside down.

Source: Tatoeba

「这些字母全都左右倒转了！」「才不是呢，这是俄文，俄文的字母就是这样写的。」

"Those letters are all the wrong way around!" "No, it's supposed to be like that, it's Russian."

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 倒 dào
  1. to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
  2. to pour out
  3. to tip out; to dump
  4. inverted; upside down; reversed
  5. to go backward
  6. contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
2 转 zhuǎn
  1. to turn
  2. to change direction
  3. to transfer
  4. to forward (mail)
  5. (Internet) to share (sb else's content)