菜碟舀水，一眼看到底菜碟舀水，一眼看到底菜碟舀水，一眼看到底

Scooping water with a vegetable saucer: you see the bottom at a glance

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Describes something so plain that you grasp it all at a glance.
Wordplay: 底 (dǐ) means both the bottom of the saucer and the real details of a matter.

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Simplified: 菜碟舀水，一眼看到底
Pinyin: cài dié yǎoshuǐ, yì yǎnkàn dàodǐ
Bopomofo: ㄘㄞˋ ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ，ㄧˋ ㄧㄢˇ ㄎㄢˋ ㄉㄠˋ ㄉㄧˇ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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