潑水難收 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 泼水难收 pōshuǐnánshōu ㄆㄛ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄡ water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom) irreversible change Character by character 潑(pō)splash 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 難(nán)difficult 收(shōu)receive A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0