垫
diàn HSK7

advance money

垫 (墊) diàn
advance money verb
to pay for someone else temporarily or to advance money

我没带钱包，你能不能先帮我垫一下？

wǒ méi dài qián​bāo, nǐ néng bù néng xiān bāng wǒ diàn yī​xià?

I didn't bring my wallet; could you cover for me first?

fill a gap verb
to pad out, level a surface, or fill a gap by adding material

桌腿有点晃，拿块纸头垫一下。

zhuō tuǐ yǒu​diǎn huàng, ná kuài zhǐ​tóu diàn yī​xià.

The table leg is a bit wobbly; use a piece of paper to steady it.

pad noun
a cushion, mat, or pad used for support or protection

他在椅子上加了一个软垫。

tā zài yǐ​zi shàng jiā le yī gè ruǎn diàn.

He added a soft cushion to the chair.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)