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竹篮打水，一场空

zhú lán dǎ shuǐ , yī cháng kōng

8-character word Traditional 竹籃打水，一場空

What 竹篮打水，一场空 means

1. using a wicker basket to draw water (idiom); wasted effort

The characters in 竹篮打水，一场空

• 竹zhú(bound form) bamboo; Kangxi radical 118
• 篮lánbasket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 场chǎnglarge place used for a specific purpose; stage; scene (of a play)
• 空kōngempty; air; sky