水泄不通 — Chinese idiom
水泄不通
shuǐ xiè bù tōng
Traditional: 水洩不通
Meaning
- (lit.) not one drop can trickle through
- (fig.) (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable
Character by character
- 水shuǐwater, liquid, lotion, juice
- 泄xièdrip, leak, vent; to disperse; to reduce
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 通tōngto pass through, to open, to connect; to communica
Idioms sharing a character
- 一清如水 yī qīng rú shuǐ
- 似水年华 sì shuǐ nián huá
- 出水芙蓉 chū shuǐ fú róng
- 如鱼得水 rú yú dé shuǐ
- 山明水秀 shān míng shuǐ xiù
- 山清水秀 shān qīng shuǐ xiù
- 山穷水尽 shān qióng shuǐ jìn
- 山长水远 shān cháng shuǐ yuǎn
- 山高水长 shān gāo shuǐ cháng
- 山高水险 shān gāo shuǐ xiǎn
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