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无米之炊
wú​mǐ​zhī​chuī

bricks without straw

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
无米之炊 無米之炊 wú​mǐ​zhī​chuī
bricks without straw
A meal cooked without rice; used to describe a task that is impossible to complete because the necessary materials or conditions are missing

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.193 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)