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杯水車薪

bēishuǐchēxīn

ㄅㄟ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄔㄜ ㄒㄧㄣ

Simplified 杯水车薪

  1. 1lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure

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