| 倒叙 | dào xù | to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc) | 
| 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 | 
| 叙 | xù | variant of 叙 | 
| 叙 | Xù | abbr. for Syria 叙利亚 | 
| 叙 | xù | to narrate / to chat |