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半桶水
bàn tǒng shuǐ
What 半桶水 means
- colloquial(of one's skills, knowledge etc) limited
- superficial
- half-baked
- sb with a smattering of knowledge (of sth)
- dabbler
The characters in 半桶水
- 半bànhalf; semi-; incomplete
- 桶tǒngbucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc)
- 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
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