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Cantonese · source Jyutpingding2 baau1

"stand in" for crime not committed as to protect the real culprit

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

ding22 · high risingbaau11 · high level

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Same syllable, six tones

ding丁ding1fourth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干shítiāngān [十天干]顶ding2most 订ding3to agreeding4—ding5—定ding6to set

baau包baau1to cover 饱baau2to eat till full 爆baau3to explode or burstbaau4—baau5—龅baau6protruding teeth

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

頂包顶

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

頂包 dǐng bāo CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto serve as forced labor; to take the rap for sb

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ding3 bao1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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ding2 baau1

Cantonese word readings for 頂包. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

(obsolete) to do forced labour
(obsolete) to secretly exchange (goods)
(neologism) to take the blame (for someone else); to act as the scapegoat (for someone who is the real culprit)

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