one ladle (of sth bad) spoils the (whole) pot (idiom); one bad apple spoils the barrel
trad. 一馬勺壞一鍋
Also written 一馬勺壞一鍋【yī mǎ sháo huài yī guō】
Characters in this word
5一
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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
马
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surname Ma, abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
- Pinyin
- Mǎ
- Traditional
- 馬
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 1030 of 2500
勺
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spoon, ladle, CL:把[ba3], abbr. for 公勺[gong1 shao2], centiliter (unit of volume)
- Pinyin
- sháo
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 27858 of 2500
坏
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bad, spoiled, broken, to break down, (suffix) to the utmost
- Pinyin
- huài
- Traditional
- 壞
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 1076 of 2500
锅
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pot; pan; wok; cauldron, pot-shaped thing, CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- guō
- Traditional
- 鍋
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 13998 of 2500