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Jyutping daa2 gang1
Pinyin dǎ gēng

Definitions (Kaifangcidian)
  1. (沒有對應漢語詞彙)

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Jyutping daa2 gaang1
Pinyin dǎ gēng

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
  1. 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.
    • 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)
    • 落筆打三更
      落笔打三更
      start writing in mid-night (means to delay, to hesitate, to be indecisive)
  2. 近義詞
    報更
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. verb, historical
    to sound the night watches
    (syn.) 拍更, 敲更
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. 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 。
    • Few things are more enraging to me than the sight of an animal being beaten.