交代
jiāo dài
Pinyin

Definition

交代
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jiāo dài
  1. to hand over
  2. to explain
  3. to make clear
  4. to brief (sb)
  5. to account for
  6. to justify oneself
  7. to confess
  8. (coll.) to finish

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

交
jiāo
  1. 1 to hand over
  2. 2 to deliver
  3. 3 to pay (money)
  4. 4 to turn over
  5. 5 to make friends
  6. 6 to intersect (lines)
  7. 7 variant: 跤 jiāo
交友
jiāo yǒu
  1. 1 to make friends
交易
jiāo yì
  1. 1 (business) transaction
  2. 2 business deal
  3. 3 classifier: 笔 bǐ
交流
jiāo liú
  1. 1 to exchange
  2. 2 exchange
  3. 3 communication
  4. 4 interaction
  5. 5 to have social contact (with sb)
交通
jiāo tōng
  1. 1 to be connected
  2. 2 traffic
  3. 3 transportation
  4. 4 communications
  5. 5 liaison

Idioms (20)

一手交钱，一手交货
yī shǒu jiāo qián , yī shǒu jiāo huò
  1. 1 lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to pay for what you want in cash
  3. 3 simple and direct transaction
世代相传
shì dài xiāng chuán
  1. 1 passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
交口称誉
jiāo kǒu chēng yù
  1. 1 voices unanimous in praise (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
交浅言深
jiāo qiǎn yán shēn
  1. 1 to talk intimately while being comparative strangers (idiom)
代代相传
dài dài xiāng chuán
  1. 1 passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down

Sample Sentences

我也知道，不过零件差太多，Y工厂那边交代不过去呀。而且今年年底又要供应商招标了，投诉太多对我们不利啊。
wǒ yě zhīdào ，bùguò língjiàn chà tài duō ，Y gōngchǎng nàbiān jiāodài bù guòqu ya 。érqiě jīnnián niándǐ yòu yào gōngyìngshāng zhāobiāo le ，tóusù tài duō duì wǒmen bùlì a 。
I know, but the parts are below standard. There's no way we can explain this to Y Factory! Furthermore, at the end of this year they're going to put out bids for suppliers again. Too many complaints won't be good for us.
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洋洋，我知道你是个好女孩，可你怎么能做这种事呢？我可是有家室的人，出了这种事，我怎么向老婆交代啊！
Yángyáng ，wǒ zhīdào nǐ shì gè hǎo nǚhái ，kě nǐ zěnme néng zuò zhèzhǒng matter ne ？wǒ kě shì yǒu jiāshì de rén ，chū le zhèzhǒng shì ，wǒ zěnme xiàng lǎopó jiāodài a ！
Yangyang, I know you're a good girl. But how could you do something like this? I've got a family! When something like this happens, how am I supposed to explain things to my wife?
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好的。你把工作跟小王交代一下。
hǎo de 。nǐ bǎ gōngzuò gēn Xiǎo Wáng jiāodài yīxià 。
OK. Fill Xiao Wang in on the work that needs to be done.
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可是，杜老板交代说绝不能改变计划，还特意叮嘱过我，说不用听你的话。
kěshì ，Dù lǎobǎn jiāodài shuō jué bùnéng gǎibiàn jìhuà ，hái tèyì dīngzhǔ guo wǒ ，shuō bùyòng tīng nǐ de huà 。
But Ms. Du explained that I absolutely couldn't change the plan. She even explicitly ordered me not to listen to you.
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