水洩不通

Chinese

		water; river	divulge; leak out	to be obstructed; to be unable to get through; to not understand
trad. (水洩不通/水泄不通)		水	洩/泄	不通
simp. (水泄不通)		水	泄	不通
Literally: “even water cannot flow out”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐxièbùtōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² sit³ bat¹ tung¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): zui² siab⁸ bug⁴ tong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐxièbùtōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěisièbùtong
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-hsieh⁴-pu⁴-tʻung¹
    • Yale: shwěi-syè-bù-tūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeishiehbutong
    • Palladius: шуйсебутун (šujsebutun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ tʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² sit³ bat¹ tung¹
    • Yale: séui sit bāt tūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² sit⁸ bat⁷ tung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² xid³ bed¹ tung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ siːt̚³ pɐt̚⁵ tʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zui² siab⁸ bug⁴ tong¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsúi sia̍p puk thong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁵²⁻³⁵ siap̚⁴⁻² puk̚²⁻⁴ tʰoŋ³³/

Idiom

水洩不通

1. densely packed; extremely crowded; impenetrable

Synonyms

• 人山人海 (rénshānrénhǎi)
• (Cantonese) 插針都插唔入／插针都插唔入