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八竿子打不着

bā gān zi dǎ bù zháo

6-character word Traditional 八竿子打不著

What 八竿子打不着 means

1. colloquialunrelated; lacking any connection

The characters in 八竿子打不着

• 八bāeight
• 竿gān(bound form) pole; rod
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 着zheaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state

Sounds the same

Read bā gān zi dǎ bù zháo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 八杆子打不着variant of 八竿子打不着