杯水车薪 bēishuǐchēxīn inadequate Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 杯水车薪 (杯水車薪) bēishuǐchēxīn 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)
杯水车薪 (杯水車薪) bēishuǐchēxīn 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)