杯水车薪 bēishuǐchēxīn utterly inadequate Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 杯水车薪 杯水車薪 bēishuǐchēxīn utterly inadequate literally a cup of water to put out a burning cart of firewood; describes a tiny effort or amount that is useless against a huge problem Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.02 per million Cross-References Variant of 杯水舆薪 bēishuǐyúxīnSynonym 粥少僧多 zhōushǎosēngduō Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
杯水车薪 杯水車薪 bēishuǐchēxīn utterly inadequate literally a cup of water to put out a burning cart of firewood; describes a tiny effort or amount that is useless against a huge problem Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.02 per million Cross-References Variant of 杯水舆薪 bēishuǐyúxīnSynonym 粥少僧多 zhōushǎosēngduō Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
