交代
Traditional form:
交代
Pinyin (reading):
jiāodài
Definitions:
- to transfer (duties to sb else)
- to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth)
- to explain; to give an account; to brief
- to confess; to account for oneself
- (jocular) to come to a bad end
Characters:
- 交 - to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix
- 代 - era, generation; to substitute for, to replace
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