in English

diàn verb, noun
pad / cushion / mat / to pad out / to fill a gap / to pay for sb / to advance (money)

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 墊, the traditional character: 垫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 我在擦鞋垫下面发现了这把钥匙。

    I found the key underneath the mat.

  • 进家门后,我被垫子绊倒了。

    Entering the house, I tripped over the mat.

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