day care; daytime boarding
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 2 examplesverb
to board during the day; to place in day care (as opposed to full boarding)
archaicContrasts with 全托 (quántuō, full boarding). The term is now rarely used in modern Chinese, having been removed from the 7th edition of the Modern Chinese Dictionary.
Hái孩
zi子
bàn半
tuō托
zài在
yòu幼
ér儿
yuán园
，
měi每
tiān天
xià下
wǔ午
sì四
diǎn点
jiē接
huí回
jiā家
。
The child is in day care at the kindergarten and is picked up at four o'clock every afternoon.
Nà那
shí时
hou候
tiáo条
jiàn件
bù不
hǎo好
，
hái孩
zi子
zhǐ只
néng能
bàn半
tuō托
，
bù不
néng能
quán全
tuō托
。
Conditions were poor back then, so the child could only be in day care, not full boarding.