垫
diàn HSK7

advance money

垫 墊 diàn
pad noun
(bound form) pad; cushion; mat
to pad verb
to put something under or on top of something else to raise, level, or protect it

你该在他下面垫个枕头。

nǐ gāi zài tā xià​mian diàn ge zhěn​tou.

You should put a pillow under him.

to advance money
to pay for somebody else temporarily; to advance money for a payment
to fill a gap
to temporarily fill a gap or vacancy, such as by adding a short performance to a schedule

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,597th most common 16.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,888th most common 23.6 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.6 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
14.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
墊
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+57AB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)