lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom); fig. empty vessels make the most noise
trad. 一瓶子不響，半瓶子晃蕩
Also written 一瓶子不響，半瓶子晃蕩【yī píng zi bù xiǎng , bàn píng zi huàng dang】
Characters in this word
8一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
瓶
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bottle, vase, pitcher, CL:個|个[ge4], classifier for wine and liquids
- Pinyin
- píng
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 5509 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
响
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echo, sound, noise, to make a sound, to sound, to ring, loud, classifier for noises
- Pinyin
- xiǎng
- Traditional
- 響
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 5222 of 2500
半
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half, semi-, incomplete, (after a number) and a half
- Pinyin
- bàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 2465 of 2500
晃
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variant of 晃[huang3]
- Pinyin
- huǎng
- Traditional
- 㨪
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 10014 of 2500
荡
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variant of 蕩|荡[dang4]
- Pinyin
- dàng
- Traditional
- 盪
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 14826 of 2500