| 倒吊蜡烛 |
dào diào là zhú |
Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo) |
| 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 |
| 吊 |
diào |
to suspend / to hang up / to hang a person |
| 吊 |
diào |
a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊 |
| 蜡 |
là |
candle / wax |
| 蜡烛 |
là zhú |
candle / CL:根,支 |
| 烛 |
zhú |
candle / (literary) to illuminate |