打发时间 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 打發時間 dǎfāshíjiān ㄉㄚˇ ㄈㄚ ㄕˊ ㄐㄧㄢ to pass the time Character by character 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 发(fā)send out 时(shí)surname Shi 间(jiān)between A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0