HSK 6 · Money

倒闭 dǎobì “to go bankrupt” in Chinese

Traditional 倒閉

What 倒闭 means

  1. to go bankrupt
  2. to close down

How to say 倒闭

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale倒dǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale闭bì4th tone, falling

倒闭 in a sentence

  1. 许多小公司倒闭了。

    Xǔduō xiǎo gōngsī dǎobì le.

    Many small companies went bankrupt.

    Sentence #335884 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 公司很快就要倒闭了。

    Gōngsī hěn kuài jiùyào dǎobì le.

    The company will soon go bankrupt.

    Sentence #335883 from Tatoeba

  3. 公司由于缺乏资本倒闭了。

    Gōngsī yóuyú quēfá zīběn dǎobì le.

    The company went under due to a lack of capital.

    Sentence #793951 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 倒闭 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 倒 (dǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
倒dǎoto fall; to collapse
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 到to go to · dàoSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 到 (dào) hints at the sound. Compare it with dǎo.

The character 闭 (bì) with each of its parts in a different colour
闭bìto close
  • 门gate · mén
  • 才ability · cái

How to write 倒闭

倒 10 strokes · 闭 6 strokes

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倒闭 (dǎobì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 倒闭 (dǎobì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 倒闭

Words with 倒

倒dǎo · to fall摔倒shuāidǎo · to fall over倒霉dǎoméi · to have bad luck颠倒diāndǎo · to turn upside down

Words with 闭

关闭guānbì · to close封闭fēngbì · to seal off闭塞bìsè · isolated

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FAQs

倒闭 (dǎobì) means “to go bankrupt” or “to close down”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dǎobì: dǎo with a 3rd tone, then bì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 倒闭 is written 倒閉. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daobi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 倒闭 from the suggestions. Typing daobi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
倒闭 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.