倒す
たおす · taosu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to beat
🎳 taosu sounds like toss you: I'll toss you down and beat you
倒す is the transitive partner of 倒れる (to fall over): 倒れる means something falls, and 倒す means you make it fall. The kanji 倒 = person 亻 + 到 (arrive), so a person arrives at the ground. It covers knocking things over and defeating an opponent.
倒 — person radical 亻 + 到 (to arrive)
倒 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the person radical 亻 gives meaning (an action done by/to a person), while 到 supplies the sound 'dào'. Originally meaning 'to fall over' (a person toppling), it extended to 'invert, upside down, pour out', as when something falls and spills.