竹篮打水，一场空
Traditional form:
竹籃打水，一場空
Pinyin (reading):
zhúlándǎshuǐ,yīchángkōng
Definitions:
- using a wicker basket to draw water (idiom); wasted effort
Characters:
- 竹 - bamboo; flute
- 篮 - basket; goal
- 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 场 - field, open space; market, square; stage
- 空 - hollow, empty, deserted, bare
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