Read Edit View history Discussion 倒灌 dàoguàn to flow backward Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 倒灌 dàoguàn to flow backward to flow backward, such as water flowing from a lower to a higher level due to tides or floods, smoke blowing back down a chimney, or sewage backing up; (figuratively) to flow in the reverse of the normal direction (e.g. of capital or talent) Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.430 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
倒灌 dàoguàn to flow backward to flow backward, such as water flowing from a lower to a higher level due to tides or floods, smoke blowing back down a chimney, or sewage backing up; (figuratively) to flow in the reverse of the normal direction (e.g. of capital or talent) Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.430 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)