三个和尚没水喝 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 三個和尚沒水喝 sāngèhéshangméishuǐhē ㄙㄢ ㄍㄜˋ ㄏㄜˊ ˙ㄕㄤ ㄇㄟˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄜ lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) fig. everybody's business is nobody's business (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.) Character by character 三(sān)three 个(gè)(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier) 和(hé)and 尚(shang)still 没(méi)not 水(shuǐ)water 喝(hē)drink Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0