tài​cāng​tí​mǐ

a tiny drop in the ocean

  • created reference approved 太仓稊米/太倉稊米 → 庄子/莊子 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    太仓稊米 / 太倉稊米 tài​cāng​tí​mǐ

    庄子 / 莊子 zhuāng​zǐ

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 太仓稊米/太倉稊米 · tài​cāng​tí​mǐ · a tiny drop in the ocean — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    太仓稊米 / 太倉稊米

    tài​cāng​tí​mǐ

    a tiny drop in the ocean

    A very small portion of something; literally a single grain of tares in a giant granary.

    太仓 (literal) → 太仓/太倉 · tài​cāng · imperial granary 稊 (literal) → 稊 · tí · grass 米 (literal) → 米 · mǐ · grain

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense