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English

1. to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
2. An ancient public service of time announcement by night watches. The night divines into 5 periods, every period is 2 hours, first period is 7:00-9:00pm, the fifth period is 03:00-05:00am. The night watches will patrol the village or town and hit a gong, drum or wooden clappers in specific pattern according to the time as an announcement.unreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 古時喺夜晚報時嘅公共服務；一晚分五更，每兩個鐘一更，晚上七點至九點係一更，直到淩晨三點至五點係五更；打更果陣會按時份用特定方式敲打鑼、鼓或木條，向居民報時。unreviewed?

Examples

• 沒有甚麼比看見動物被虐打更能惹起我的怒火。

  Few things are more enraging to me than the sight of an animal being beaten.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

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  落手打三更

  Announce period 3 at the start of night watch (means doing wrongly at the very start)

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  落筆打三更

  start writing in mid-night (means to delay, to hesitate, to be indecisive)