dialect: fill up with customers; draw a crowd
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Meanings
1 sense · 4 examplesverb
(of a restaurant, theater, etc.) to fill up with customers or audience members arriving gradually; to draw a crowd
dialectUsed in northern dialects, often implying a venue gradually attracting customers. Can take the erhua suffix as '上人儿' (shàng rénr). Usually appears with '了' to indicate the change of state.
Zhè这
jiā家
cān餐
guǎn馆
wǎn晚
shang上
qī七
diǎn点
zhōng钟
cái才
shàng上
rén人
。
This restaurant doesn't fill up with customers until seven in the evening.
Jù剧
chǎng场
lǐ里
màn慢
man慢
shàng上
rén人
le了
，
yǎn演
chū出
kuài快
kāi开
shǐ始
le了
。
The theater is slowly filling up; the performance is about to begin.
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Jīn今
tiān天
shēng生
yì意
bù不
hǎo好
，
dào到
xiàn现
zài在
hái还
méi没
shàng上
rén人
ne呢
。
Business is slow today; it hasn't filled up with customers yet.
Fàn饭
guǎn馆
yī一
shàng上
rén人
，
fú服
wù务
yuán员
jiù就
máng忙
bù不
guò过
lái来
le了
。
As soon as the restaurant fills up with customers, the waiters can't keep up with the work.