墊補

Chinese

		pad; cushion; mat	to repair; to patch; to mend to repair; to patch; to mend; to make up for; to fill (a vacancy); to supplement
trad. (墊補)		墊	補
simp. (垫补)		垫	补

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diànbu, diànbǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ ˙ㄅㄨ, ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄅㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶ bou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland standard)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diànbu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ ˙ㄅㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diànbů
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴-pu⁵
    • Yale: dyàn-bu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann.bu
    • Palladius: дяньбу (djanʹbu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹ b̥u¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan standard)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diànbǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄅㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diànbǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴-pu³
    • Yale: dyàn-bǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diannbuu
    • Palladius: дяньбу (djanʹbu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹ pu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: din⁶ bou²
    • Yale: dihn bóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶ bou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: din⁶ bou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn²² pou̯³⁵/

Verb

墊補

1. (colloquial) to fill a financial deficit by temporarily appropriating money from elsewhere
2. (Mainland China, colloquial) to have a snack to allay hunger before a regular meal

See also

• 填補／填补 (tiánbǔ)
• 點補／点补