倒數
dào​shǔdào​shù HSK7

to count backwards

倒数 倒數 dào​shǔ frequency
to count backwards verb
To count numbers in reverse order; to count down (as in a rocket launch)

程序员想从10开始倒数。

chéng​xù​yuán xiǎng cóng10 kāi​shǐ dào​shǔ.

The programmer wants to count down from 10.

from the end adjective
Counting from the end, back, or bottom of a series (e.g., the third person from the end)

我是倒数第二个得知这个坏消息的。

wǒ shì dào​shǔ dì'èr ge dé​zhī zhè​ge huài xiāo​xi de.

I was the second to last person to hear the bad news.

倒数 倒數 dào​shù
reciprocal
The reciprocal or inverse of a number in mathematics.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
14.1 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
11.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Same as

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)