力气 lìqì 气力 qìlì

strength, energy

Although I guess bystand isn’t technically a word without the -er, I have heard it used as a verb.

　　可倒读为:
　　悠悠绿水傍林偎，日落观山四望回。幽林古寺孤明月，冷井寒泉碧映台。
　　鸥飞满浦渔舟泛，鹤伴闲亭仙客来。游径踏花烟上走，流溪远棹一篷开。

More example please refer:http://baike.baidu.com/view/46546.htm

彩色[sècǎi]/色彩[cǎisè] – colour /colourful

then we get into words that still have meanings when read backwards, but the meanings are different. Those are good to be aware of but I’m always sure I’ll mess them up.

@Phil,
I guess yours would fall into that category also where the words still have meaning, but the two meanings are not equal.

讲演[jiǎngyǎn]/演讲[yǎnjiǎng]– a lecture/to hold a lecture

代替[dàitì]/替代[tìdài] – to replace

负担[fùdān]/担负[dānfù] – to be responsible for; burden

来往[láiwǎng]/往来[wǎnglái] – to come and to go; contacts; relationship

空虚[kōngxū]/虚空[xūkōng] – empty

要紧[jǐnyào]/紧要[yàojǐn] – important

迁移[qiānyí]/移迁[yíqiān] – to move to another place to live, to migrate

阻拦[zǔlán]/拦阻[lánzǔ] – to block; to keep long, to delay

兄弟[xiōngdì]/弟兄[xiōngdì] – brothers

彩色[sècǎi]/色彩[cǎisè] – colour /colourful

进行[jìnxíng]/行进[xíngjìn] – to realize /to go ahead

书写[shūxiě]/写书[xiěshū]– writing/ to write a book

力量[lìliang]/量力[liànglì] – force; power; effect / to the best of one’s ability

前面[qiánmian]/面前[miànqián] – in front of /in the face of

车马[chēmǎ]/马车[mǎchē] – street transport/a horse-drawn vehicle

民军[mínjūn]/军民[jūnmín] – people’s army, people’s emergency volunteer corps/army & people

展开[zhǎnkāi]/开展[kāizhǎn] – to open/to expand, to extend; highly-developed; leading

法语[fǎyǔ]/语法[yǔfǎ] – French languahe/ a grammar

Thewatcher,
Zhen qiao indeed! It’s amazing how often little things like that happen (for example, a friend of mine is haunted by how often the word “emu” comes up in his life).

Sarah,
You’re right, adverbs can go almost anywhere in English (I love that). Maybe that’s what I was thinking of, but it seems like it was some sort of compound word…Oh well.

Joe,
That’s brilliant! Finally an English palindrome I can remember.

kencanau,
I’ve bolded them in the list appropriately. Thanks!

Helen,
Thanks for the two examples. I suppose there’s another topic: “Words that have very different meanings forwards and backwards” (like 蜜蜂 and 蜂蜜).

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很巧！