覆水难收 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 覆水難收 fùshuǐnánshōu ㄈㄨˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄡ spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom) it's no use crying over spilt milk what's done is done and can't be reversed the damage is done once divorced, there's no reuniting Character by character 覆(fù)cover 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 难(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