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一竹篙打死一船人 (jat1 zuk1 gou1 daa2 sei2 jat1 syun4 jan4) — blanket condemnation of a group for one person's mistake in Cantonese

jatˉ¹一zukˉ¹竹gouˉ¹篙daaˊ²打seiˊ²死jatˉ¹一syunˎ₄船janˎ₄人
Mandarin Pinyin: yi1 zhu2 gao1 da3 si3 yi1 chuan2 ren2

Meaning of 一竹篙打死一船人

nounblanket condemnation of a group for one person's mistake
nouna pole hits and kills a boat of people, which means one holds onto someone's wrong and thinks the rest of others are the same

Characters in 一竹篙打死一船人

一jat1
one; a; an; the
竹zuk1
Kangxi radical 118
篙gou1
boat-pole; long pole used for punting a boat
打daa2
dozen
死sei2
die; death; dead | [ant] 生, 活
船syun4
ship; boat; vessel; craft; ferry; barge
人jan4
manpower; staff; human resources

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