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水泄不通

shuǐ xiè bù tōng

4-character word Traditional 水洩不通

What 水泄不通 means

1. (lit.) not one drop can trickle through (idiom)
2. (fig.) (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable

The characters in 水泄不通

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 泄xiè(bound form) to leak out; to discharge; (fig.) to divulge
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert