杯水车薪 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 杯水車薪 bēishuǐchēxīn ㄅㄟ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄔㄜ ㄒㄧㄣ lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom) fig. an utterly inadequate measure Character by character 杯(bēi)cup 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 车(chē)surname Che 薪(xīn)firewood A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0