打爛砂盆問到篤

打爛砂盆問到篤

Chinese

		to hit hard; to smack; to break to hit hard; to smack; to break; to smash		to ask	to (a place); until (a time); up to to (a place); until (a time); up to; to go; to arrive	serious (illness); sincere; true
trad. (打爛砂盆問到篤)		打爛	砂盆	問	到	篤
simp. (打烂砂盆问到笃)		打烂	砂盆	问	到	笃
variant forms		打爛沙盆問到篤／打烂沙盆问到笃 打爛砂盆璺到䐁／打烂砂盆璺到䐁 打爛砂盆璺到㞘／打烂砂盆璺到㞘
Literally: “to break a claypot and ask (crack) to the bottom”.

Etymology

A pun based on the homophony of 璺 (man6, “crack”) and 問／问 (man6, “to ask”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² laan⁶ saa¹ pun⁴ man⁶ dou³ duk¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² laan⁶ saa¹ pun⁴ man⁶ dou³ duk¹
    • Yale: dá laahn sā pùhn mahn dou dūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² laan⁶ saa¹ pun⁴ man⁶ dou³ duk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² lan⁶ sa¹ pun⁴ men⁶ dou³ dug¹
    • IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ laːn²² saː⁵⁵ pʰuːn²¹ mɐn²² tou̯³³ tʊk̚⁵/

Idiom

打爛砂盆問到篤

1. (Cantonese) to keep asking questions to get to the bottom of something

Synonyms

• 打破砂鍋問到底／打破砂锅问到底 (dǎpò shāguō wèn dàodǐ)