水泄不通 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 水洩不通 shuǐxièbùtōng ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄨㄥ not one drop can trickle through (idiom) lit. (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable fig. Character by character 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 泄(xiè)leak out 不(bù)no 通(tōng)go through A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0