打更 [--]
Jyutping
daa2 gang1
Pinyin
dǎ gēng
打更 [--]
Jyutping
daa2 gaang1
Pinyin
dǎ gēng
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to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
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動詞
古時喺夜晚報時嘅公共服務;一晚分五更,每兩個鐘一更,晚上七點至九點係一更,直到淩晨三點至五點係五更;打更果陣會按時份用特定方式敲打鑼、鼓或木條,向居民報時。
An ancient public service of time announcement by night watches. The night divines into 5 periods, every period is 2 hours, first period is 7:00-9:00pm, the fifth period is 03:00-05:00am. The night watches will patrol the village or town and hit a gong, drum or wooden clappers in specific pattern according to the time as an announcement.
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落手打三更
落手打三更
Announce period 3 at the start of night watch (means doing wrongly at the very start)
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落筆打三更
落笔打三更
start writing in mid-night (means to delay, to hesitate, to be indecisive)
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近義詞
報更
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verb, historical
to sound the night watches
(syn.) 拍更, 敲更
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Mandarin
没有甚么比看见动物被虐打更能惹起我的怒火。
沒有甚麼比看見動物被虐打更能惹起我的怒火。
méi yǒu shèn me bǐ kàn jiàn dòng wù bèi nüè dǎ gēng néng rě qǐ wǒ de nù huǒ 。
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Few things are more enraging to me than the sight of an animal being beaten.