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透支
Mandarin · pinyin tòu zhī
Meanings
- (banking) to overdraw
- to take out an overdraft
- an overdraft
- to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue)
- (old) to draw one's wage in advance
- (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc)
- to damage a natural resource through overuse
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4–1 · tou4 zhi1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
tau3 zi1
Cantonese word readings for 透支. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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verb
- to make an overdraft; to have a banking overdraw
- to overspend; to let expenditure exceed revenue
- (old) to draw one's salary in advance
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