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竹筒倒豆子

zhú tǒng dào dòu zi

5-character word

What 竹筒倒豆子 means

1. like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once)

The characters in 竹筒倒豆子

• 竹zhú(bound form) bamboo; Kangxi radical 118
• 筒tǒngtube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 豆dòulegume; pulse; bean; pea (variant of 豆
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

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