| 倒刺 | dào cì | barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook) | 
| 倒 | dǎo | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit | 
| 倒 | dào | to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet | 
| 刺 | cī | (onom.) whoosh | 
| 刺 | cì | thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder |