倒米

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	rice; metre
trad. (倒米)	倒	米
simp. ^#(倒米)	倒	米
Literally: “to pour away rice”.

Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): dou² mai⁵

(Taishan, Wiktionary): au² mai²

倒米

(Cantonese) to ruin a business
倒米壽星／倒米寿星 [Cantonese] ― dou² mai⁵ sau⁶ sing¹ [Jyutping] ― a person who wanted to help with something but eventually ruins it

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