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打發

简打发 · 繁打發

Mandarin · pinyin dǎ fa

to dispatch sb to do sth
to make sb leave
to pass (the time)
(old) to make arrangements
(old) to bestow (alms etc)

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打: dǎ · strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
發: fā · issue, dispatch, send out, emit
发: fā · issue, dispatch, send out; hair

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3–5 · da3 fa5

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daa2 faat3

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

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verb

to send (on an errand, mission, etc.); to dispatch; to deploy
to dismiss; to send away
to while away (one's time)
to arrange
to marry off a daughter
(literary) to hand out; to hand over (money, items, project, etc.)
to whip

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