The Chinese word 推倒 is a compound formed by combining two individual characters: 推 (*tuī*), meaning "to push," and 倒 (*dǎo*), meaning "to fall" or "to collapse." Together, they create a verb-object structure where the action of "pushing" logically causes the result of "falling." This formation follows a common pattern in Chinese where two verbs or a verb and its result are combined to describe a single, more specific action. Literally, it means "to push over" or "to push down," and this concrete meaning is often extended metaphorically to mean "to overthrow" (e.g., a regime) or "to overturn" (e.g., a theory).