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跳票

Mandarin · pinyin tiào piào

(finance) (of a check) to bounce
(fig.) (of a product etc) to fail to be released on schedule

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跳: tiào · jump, leap, vault, bounce; dance
票: piào · slip of paper or bamboo; ticket

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4–4 · tiao4 piao4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

tiu3 piu3

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

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verb

(finance, of a cheque) to bounce
(figurative) to not achieve a promise
(figurative, Internet slang, ACG) to reschedule the release of a work

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