打爛砂盆問到篤

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Chinese

to hit hard; to smack; to break
to hit hard; to smack; to break; to smash
 
 to ask
to (a place); until (a time); up to
to (a place); until (a time); up to; to go; to arrive
 
 serious (illness); sincere; true
trad. (打爛砂盆問到篤) 打爛 砂盆 問 到 篤
simp. (打烂砂盆问到笃) 打烂 砂盆 问 到 笃
alternative forms 打爛沙盆問到篤／打烂沙盆问到笃
打爛砂盆璺到䐁／打烂砂盆璺到䐁
打爛沙盆璺到㞘／打烂沙盆璺到㞘
打爛砂盆璺到㞘／打烂砂盆璺到㞘
Literally: “to break a claypot and ask (crack) to the bottom”.

Etymology

A pun based on the homophony of 璺 (man6, “crack”) and 問／问 (man6, “to ask”).

Pronunciation

Idiom

打爛砂盆問到篤

  1. (Cantonese, Hakka) to keep asking questions to get to the bottom of something

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 打破砂鍋問到底 (“to keep asking questions to get to the bottom of something”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 打破砂鍋問到底
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 打破砂鍋問到底
Singapore 打破砂鍋問到底
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 打破砂鍋問到底
Cantonese Hong Kong 打爛砂盆問到篤
Hakka Xingning 打爛砂盆問到篤
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