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半瓶水响叮当
bàn píng shuǐ xiǎng dīng dāng
What 半瓶水响叮当 means
- lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom)
- fig. empty vessels make the most noise
- one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest
The characters in 半瓶水响叮当
- 半bànhalf; semi-; incomplete
- 瓶píngbottle; vase; pitcher
- 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
- 响xiǎngecho; sound; noise
- 叮dīngto sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc); to say repeatedly; to urge insistently
- 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
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