contrary; opposite; backwards

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Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

船逆流而上。

The boat goes upstream against the current.

你为什么要逆着来?

Why do you go against the flow?