打爛砂盆問到篤

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

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² laan⁶ saa¹ pun⁴ man⁶ dou³ duk¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² laan⁶ saa¹ pun⁴ man⁶ dou³ duk¹
    • Yale: dá laahn sā pùhn mahn dou dūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² laan⁶ saa¹ pun⁴ man⁶ dou³ duk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² lan⁶ sa¹ pun⁴ men⁶ dou³ dug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ laːn²² saː⁵⁵ pʰuːn²¹ mɐn²² tou̯³³ tʊk̚⁵/

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”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
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