一盤散沙 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 一盘散沙 yīpánsǎnshā ㄧ ㄆㄢˊ ㄙㄢˇ ㄕㄚ lit. like a sheet of loose sand fig. unable to cooperate (idiom) Character by character 一(yī)one 盤(pán)tray 散(sǎn)scattered 沙(shā)surname Sha A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0