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Kanji Detail for 墊 - "lay, sink, dig, low"
墊
- Meaning
墊 means "lay, sink, dig, low."
Lay - To place underneath.
Sink - To subside.
Dig - To excavate.
Low - For land to be depressed.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
advance money; pay for another
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
advance money, pay for another
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
pad; cushion; mat; to pad out; to fill a gap; to pay for sb; to advance (money)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
cushion, mat, pad; to advance money, to pay for another
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Low; sunken. 昏墊 appears in (Book of Documents), speaking of people suffering from floods. | All padding that makes things thicker and higher is called 墊. Hence mattresses and cushions are called 墊. Such as 鋪墊. | Money temporarily paid on someone's behalf is called 墊款. All read like 田 in departing tone.
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