锅台裂缝儿,坏灶 鍋台裂縫兒,壞灶 鍋台裂縫兒,壞灶

a crack in the stove top: a bad stove (omen)

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning
A bad sign; something ominous has appeared.
Wordplay
灶 (zào) sounds like 兆 (zhào, omen), so 'bad stove' reads as 'bad omen'.
Simplified
锅台裂缝儿,坏灶
Traditional (Taiwan)
鍋台裂縫兒,壞灶
Pinyin
guōtái liè fèngr, huài zào
Bopomofo
ㄍㄨㄛ ㄊㄞˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄈㄥˋㄦ,ㄏㄨㄞˋ ㄗㄠˋ

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

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