数米而炊 shǔmǐ'érchuī to count grains of rice before cooking Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 数米而炊 數米而炊 shǔmǐ'érchuī to count grains of rice before cooking to fuss over petty details or perform tedious, pointless busywork miserly; impoverished to be extremely stingy or to live in such dire poverty that one must account for every grain of rice Frequency Written text 0.002 per million Cross-References See 锱铢必较 zīzhūbìjiào斤斤计较 jīnjīnjìjiào Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
数米而炊 數米而炊 shǔmǐ'érchuī to count grains of rice before cooking to fuss over petty details or perform tedious, pointless busywork miserly; impoverished to be extremely stingy or to live in such dire poverty that one must account for every grain of rice Frequency Written text 0.002 per million Cross-References See 锱铢必较 zīzhūbìjiào斤斤计较 jīnjīnjìjiào Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
