| 倒背如流 |
dào bèi rú liú |
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards) |
| 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 |
| 背 |
bēi |
variant of 背 |
| 背 |
bēi |
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder |
| 背 |
bèi |
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing |
| 如 |
rú |
as / as if / such as |
| 流 |
liú |
to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade |