捱更抵夜 (ngaai4 gaang1 dai2 ye6) — go to bed late and get up early in Cantonese | HKDictionary

ngaaiˎ₄捱gaangˉ¹更daiˊ²抵yeˍ₆夜

简挨更抵夜

Mandarin Pinyin: ai2 geng1 di3 ye4

Meaning of 捱更抵夜

noungo to bed late and get up early

nounstay up all night

noun(verb) to stay up late working; ) to work overtime; to work all day and night

Characters in 捱更抵夜

endure; suffer; put up with

a watch period (one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided starting at 7pm)

offset; substitute; balance; compensate

night; dark; darkness; in night

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