赖泥下窑,烧不成个东西賴泥下窯,燒不成個東西賴泥下窯,燒不成個東西

Putting bad clay in the kiln: it won't fire into anything

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: A scolding for someone worthless who will come to nothing.
Wordplay: 东西 dōngxi means both 'a thing, an object' and, as an insult, 'a person'.

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Simplified: 赖泥下窑,烧不成个东西
Traditional (Taiwan): 賴泥下窯,燒不成個東西
Pinyin: lài ní xià yáo,shāo bùchéng ge dōngxi
Pinyin (Taiwan): lài ní xià yáo,shāo bùchéng gè dōngxi
Bopomofo: ㄌㄞˋ ㄋㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄧㄠˊ,ㄕㄠㄅㄨˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄍㄜˋ ㄉㄨㄥ ˙ㄒㄧ

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

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