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杯水车薪
bēi​shuǐ​chē​xīn

inadequate

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
杯水车薪 (杯水車薪) bēi​shuǐ​chē​xīn
inadequate idiom
An utterly inadequate measure; literally a cup of water to put out a burning cart of firewood.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.02 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)