却倒

but on the contrary / but unexpectedly

old variant of 卻|却[que4]

but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit

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