埋单 [埋單] - to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese), (fig.) to bear responsibility - mái dān | Definition | ChinesePod.com

埋单 (埋單)

mái dān

Pinyin

Definition

埋单 (埋單)

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mái dān

to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese)
(fig.) to bear responsibility

Character Decomposition

Related Words (16)

mái

1 to bury

mái fú

1 to ambush
2 to lie in wait for
3 to lie low
4 ambush

mán yuàn

1 to complain
2 to grumble (about)
3 to reproach
4 to blame

mái mò

1 to engulf
2 to bury
3 to overlook
4 to stifle
5 to neglect
6 to fall into oblivion

mái zàng

1 to bury

Idioms (2)

埋头苦干

mái tóu kǔ gàn

1 to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
2 to make an all-out effort
3 up to the neck in work

葬玉埋香

zàng yù mái xiāng

1 lit. burying jade and interring incense (idiom); funeral for a beautiful person

Sample Sentences

首先，是“记少不记多”。许多多音字的其中一种读音只在一个或几个词语中出现。这种时候，只要记住这些特殊发音的词，就能掌握这个多音字了。就像“埋单”的“埋”，除了在“埋怨”中发man2这个音以外，其他的都读mai2。

shǒuxiān ，shì “jì shǎo bù jì duō ”。xǔduō duōyīnzì de qízhōng yīzhǒng dúyīn zhǐ zài yī ge huò jǐge cíyǔ zhōng chūxiàn 。zhèzhǒng shíhou ，zhǐyào jìzhu zhèxiē tèshū fāyīn de cí ，jiù néng zhǎngwò zhège duōyīnzì le 。jiùxiàng “máidān ”de “mái ”，chúle zài “mányuàn ”zhōng fā mán zhège yīn yǐwài ，qítā de dōu dú mái 。

First, there's ''remember a little, not a lot." A lot of characters with multiple readings have one pronunciation that only appears in one or two words. In that kind of situation, you only need to remember the special pronunciations and you'll have a firm grasp on the character. For example, the ''mai" in ''to pay the bill" is always read as ''mai," except when it appears as ''man" in the word ''complain."