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倒背如流

dào bèi rú liú

Definitions

  1. 1. to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)

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Child Words of 倒背如流

倒
dǎo

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally

倒
dào

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back

如
rú

as

流
liú

to flow

背
bēi

to be burdened

背
bèi

the back of a body or object