倒貼

Chinese

		upset; turn over; to tip upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted; to fall; to collapse; to topple; to change; to fail; bankrupt	to stick; to paste; to keep close to to stick; to paste; to keep close to; to fit snugly; subsidize; allowance
trad. (倒貼)		倒	貼
simp. (倒贴)		倒	贴

倒貼

to pay instead of getting paid; to have to put in resources when one expected to be on the receiving end
(figuratively, of a girl) to lower her dignity and woo a guy
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to lose money; to make a loss

(to lose money): 虧本／亏本 (kuīběn), 賠本／赔本 (péiběn), 折本 (shéběn), 蝕本／蚀本 (shíběn); (Min Nan) 了錢／了钱, 了本, 塌本, 了去

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