打倒

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	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
simp. and trad. (打倒)		打	倒

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dǎdǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄉㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² dou²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): da³ dor³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): táⁿ-tó

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dǎdǎo [Phonetic: dádǎo]
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄉㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dǎdǎo
  - Wade–Giles: ta³-tao³
  - Yale: dǎ-dǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daadao
  - Palladius: дадао (dadao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: daa² dou²
  - Yale: dá dóu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daa² dou²
  - Guangdong Romanization: da² dou²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ tou̯³⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    打倒
    打賭 / 打赌
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: da³ dor³ [Phonetic: da⁵ dor³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dâ-dô̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ta⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ tɒ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: da³ dor³ [Phonetic: da⁵ dor³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ta³³²⁻²¹ tɒ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ-tó
  - Tâi-lô: tánn-tó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dvafdoir
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ to⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tɤ⁴¹/

Verb

打⫽倒 (verb-complement) (transitive)

to beat down; to knock down
打倒在地 ― dǎdǎo zài dì ― to knock to the ground
to overthrow; to topple; to be down with
打倒軍閥／打倒军阀 ― dǎdǎo jūnfá ― to overthrow warlords

打倒美帝！ ― Dǎdǎo měidì! ― Down with American imperialism!

Synonyms

(to beat down): 扳倒 (bāndǎo), 擊倒／击倒 (jīdǎo)
(to overthrow):

傾覆 / 倾覆 (qīngfù)
打垮 (dǎkuǎ)
打敗 / 打败 (dǎbài)
扳倒 (bāndǎo) (figurative)
拍敗 / 拍败 (Hokkien)
推翻 (tuīfān)
擊敗 / 击败 (jībài)
破 (pò) (literary, or in compounds)
顛覆 / 颠覆 (diānfù)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (打倒):

→ Japanese: 打倒(だとう) (datō)
→ Korean: 타도(打倒) (tado)
→ Vietnamese: đả đảo (打倒)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
打	倒
だ Grade: 3	とう Grade: S
kan'yōon	on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) だとー [dàtóó] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [da̠to̞ː]

Noun

打(だ)倒(とう) • (datō)

overthrow; defeat

Verb

打(だ)倒(とう)する • (datō suru) transitive suru (stem 打(だ)倒(とう)し (datō shi), past 打(だ)倒(とう)した (datō shita))

to overthrow; to defeat
- 2025 February 26, 相良祥之 [Yoshiyuki Sagara], quotee, “第217回国会　参議院　外交・安全保障に関する調査会　第3号　令和7年2月26日 [217th Diet, House of Councillors, Research Committee on Foreign Affairs and Security, No. 3, February 26, 2025]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎^[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library], retrieved 27 September 2025:
  さらには、ＩＳ、イスラム国を打倒した後に、再び若者が過激派に取り込まれないように脆弱な地域社会を再建すると、こういった活動も止まっております。
  Sara ni wa, Ai Esu, Isuramu Koku o datō shita ato ni, futatabi wakamono ga kagekiha ni torikomarenai yō ni zeijaku na chiiki shakai o saiken suru to, kō itta katsudō mo tomatte ori masu.
  Furthermore, activities to rebuild vulnerable local communities after the defeat of ISIS, to prevent young people from being drawn into extremism, have also been suspended.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "打倒する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	打倒し	だとうし	datō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	打倒し	だとうし	datō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	打倒する	だとうする	datō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	打倒する	だとうする	datō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	打倒すれ	だとうすれ	datō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	打倒せよ¹ 打倒しろ²	だとうせよ¹ だとうしろ²	datō seyo¹ datō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	打倒される	だとうされる	datō sareru
Causative	打倒させる打倒さす	だとうさせるだとうさす	datō saseru datō sasu
Potential	打倒できる	だとうできる	datō dekiru
Volitional	打倒しよう	だとうしよう	datō shiyō
Negative	打倒しない	だとうしない	datō shinai
Negative continuative	打倒せず	だとうせず	datō sezu
Formal	打倒します	だとうします	datō shimasu
Perfective	打倒した	だとうした	datō shita
Conjunctive	打倒して	だとうして	datō shite
Hypothetical conditional	打倒すれば	だとうすれば	datō sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

“打倒”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026