倒闭
Meaning
- to go bankrupt
- to close down
Example sentence
许多小公司倒闭了。
Many small companies went bankrupt.
Characters in 倒闭
- 倒 dǎo to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
- 闭 bì to close, to shut; to stop up
倒 to fall plus 闭, to close. 倒 read dào means to pour; here it is dǎo, falling — a business falling shut.