"Backward" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 落后 | luò hòu | to fall behind / to lag (in technology etc) / backward / to retrogress |   |
| 向后 | xiàng hòu | backward | |
| 不长进 | bù zhǎng jìn | not improving / backward / below par | |
| 回流 | huí liú | to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent) | |
| 退步 | tuì bù | to do less well than before / to make a concession / setback / backward step / leeway / room to maneuver / fallback | |
| 后空翻 | hòu kōng fān | backward somersault / backflip | |
| 倒 |  dào | to invert / to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out / to dump / inverted / upside down / reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect / but / yet | |
| 开倒车 | kāi dào chē | to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back | |
| 尥 | liào | to give a backward kick (e.g. of a horse) | |
| 一穷二白 | yī qióng èr bái | impoverished / backward both economically and culturally | |
| 前俯后仰 | qián fǔ hòu yǎng | to rock one's body backward and forward / to be convulsed (with laughter etc) | |
| 后掩蔽 | hòu yǎn bì | backward masking | |
| 逆向拥塞通知 | nì xiàng yōng sāi tōng zhī | Backward Explicit Congestion Notification / BECN | |
| 后翻筋斗 | hòu fān jīn dǒu | backward somersault | |
| 向后翻腾 | xiàng hòu fān téng | backward somersault | |
| 尥蹶子 | liào juě zi | (of mules, horses etc) to kick backward / to kick with the hind legs / fig. to flare up in anger / to display defiance | |
| 愚陋 | yú lòu | ignorant and backward | |
| 经济落后 | jīng jì luò hòu | economically backward | |
| 国家落后阶级委员会 | National Commission for Backward Classes | | |
| 治愚 | zhì yú | to eliminate backward (unscientific) ways of thinking | |
