Chinese symbol for “impenetrable”
水泄不通
shuǐ xiè bù tōng
Traditional: 水洩不通
(lit.) not one drop can trickle through (idiom); (fig.) (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable
The closest CC-CEDICT match for impenetrable is 水泄不通 (shuǐ xiè bù tōng), defined as: (lit.) not one drop can trickle through (idiom); (fig.) (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “impenetrable”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 水泄不通.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水平 | shuǐ píng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 水果 | shuǐ guǒ | fruit |
| 水泥 | shuǐ ní | cement; measure word: 袋 (dài) |
| 洪水 | hóng shuǐ | deluge; flood |
| 水准 (水準) | shuǐ zhǔn | level (of achievement etc); standard |
| 水库 (水庫) | shuǐ kù | reservoir; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 泄露 | xiè lòu | to leak (information); to divulge; also pr. [xie4lu4] |
| 泄漏 (洩漏) | xiè lòu | (of a liquid or gas) to leak; to divulge; to leak (information) |
| 不是 | bù shì | no; is not |
| 通过 (通過) | tōng guò | to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “impenetrable”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.