蒸沙成飯
zhēng​shā​chéng​fàn

hopeless task

  • created sense approved 蒸沙成饭/蒸沙成飯 · zhēng​shā​chéng​fàn · hopeless task — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    蒸沙成饭 / 蒸沙成飯

    zhēng​shā​chéng​fàn

    hopeless task

    (idiom) like steaming sand to make rice; an impossible task that can never succeed

    蒸 (literal) → 蒸 · zhēng · to steam 沙 (literal) → 沙 · shā · sand 成 (literal) → 成 · chéng · to become 饭 (literal) → 饭/飯 · fàn · cooked rice

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

    created sense