滄海一粟
cāng​hǎi​yī​sù

a drop in the ocean

  • created sense approved 沧海一粟/滄海一粟 · cāng​hǎi​yī​sù · a drop in the ocean — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    沧海一粟 / 滄海一粟

    cāng​hǎi​yī​sù

    a drop in the ocean

    lit. a single grain of millet in the vast sea; used to describe something that is extremely small or insignificant in the grand scheme of things

    cāng​hǎi​yí​sù

    沧海 (literal) → 沧海/滄海 · cāng​hǎi · the sea 一粟 (literal) → 一粟 · yī​sù · a grain

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

    created sense