water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
trad. 潑水難收
Also written 潑水難收【pō shuǐ nán shōu】
Characters in this word
4泼
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to splash, to spill, rough and coarse, brutish
- Pinyin
- pō
- Traditional
- 潑
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 18074 of 2500
水
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surname Shui, Shui ethnic group
- Pinyin
- Shuǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 807 of 2500
难
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difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500
收
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to receive, to accept, to collect, to put away, to restrain, to stop, in care of (used on address line after name)
- Pinyin
- shōu
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2048 of 2500