滾瓜爛熟

Chinese

	to boil; to roll	melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash	rotten, spoiled, decayed; well-cooked, overcooked, soft, mushy; broken, fragmented, shattered rotten, spoiled, decayed; well-cooked, overcooked, soft, mushy; broken, fragmented, shattered; low-quality, poor, lousy; to rot, decay, decompose, spoil; completely	familiar; skilled; ripe familiar; skilled; ripe; done; cooked
trad. (滾瓜爛熟)	滾	瓜	爛	熟
simp. (滚瓜烂熟)	滚	瓜	烂	熟
Literally: “ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine”.

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gǔnguā lànshú, gǔnguā lànshóu

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄨˊ, ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwan² gwaa¹ laan⁶ suk⁶

滾瓜爛熟

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