竹篮打水 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 竹籃打水 zhúlándǎshuǐ ㄓㄨˊ ㄌㄢˊ ㄉㄚˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ using a wicker basket to draw water (idiom) wasted effort Character by character 竹(zhú)bamboo 篮(lán)basket 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 水(shuǐ)surname Shui A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0