僧多粥少 Save Create a free account to save words sēngduōzhōushǎo ㄙㄥ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄓㄡ ㄕㄠˇ 男 女 lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom) fig. not enough to go around demand exceeds supply Character by character 僧(sēng)Buddhist monk 多(duō)many 粥(zhōu)gruel 少(shǎo)few 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