細水長流 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 细水长流 xìshuǐchángliú ㄒㄧˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄔㄤˊ ㄌㄧㄡˊ lit. thin streams flow forever fig. economy will get you a long way to work steadily at something little by little Character by character 細(xì)thin or slender 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 長(cháng)long 流(liú)flow A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0