投机倒把

tóu jī dǎo bǎ

Definitions

1. speculation and profiteering (idiom); buying and selling on speculation

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Child Words of 投机倒把

• 倒 倒 dǎo: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
• 倒 倒 dào: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
• 把 把 bǎ: handlebar
• 把 把 bà: handle
• 投 投 tóu: to cast
• 投机 投机 tóu jī: to speculate (on financial markets)
• 倒把 倒把 dǎo bǎ: to play the market
• 机 机 jī: (bound form) machine; mechanism