頂檔

Chinese

		go against; most; peak go against; most; peak; top; to replace; to substitute; a measure word (use with "hat")	cross-piece; official records; grade (of goods) cross-piece; official records; grade (of goods); file; records; shelves
trad. (頂檔)		頂	檔
simp. (顶档)		顶	档

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ding² dong³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ding² dong³
    • Yale: díng dong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ding² dong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ding² dong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ³⁵ tɔːŋ³³/

Verb

頂⫽檔 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese) to substitute for someone temporarily; to act as a stand-in
2. (Cantonese) to use one thing as a substitute for something else; (of a thing) to serve as a stopgap
   • 1995, 百變星君 [Sixty Million Dollar Man], spoken by 達叔 [Uncle Tat] (吳孟達 [Ng Man-tat]):

     大少，成個夏威夷都冇人願打你工，唯有喺盲人學院請呢拃茂利嚟頂住檔囉。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     大少，成个夏威夷都冇人愿打你工，唯有喺盲人学院请呢拃茂利嚟顶住档啰。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     daai⁶ siu³, seng⁴ go³ haa⁶ wai¹ ji⁴ dou¹ mou⁵ jan⁴ jyun⁶ daa² nei⁵ gung¹, wai⁴ jau⁵ hai² maang⁴ jan⁴ hok⁶ jyun^6-2 ceng² ni¹ zaa⁶ mau⁶ lei² lei⁴ ding² zyu⁶ dong³ lo¹. [Jyutping]

     Son, there's no one willing to work under you in the entirety of Hawaii. I could therefore only hire these bunch of dudes from the school for the blind as a stopgap measure.