墙头儿上开荒,能有几分牆頭兒上開荒,能有幾分牆頭兒上開荒,能有幾分

clearing wasteland on top of a wall: how many fen could you get?

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: There is very little of it. Humorous.
Wordplay: 分 (fēn) is both a small unit of land area and 'a bit, a fraction', so 'how many fen' means 'how little'.

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Simplified: 墙头儿上开荒,能有几分
Traditional (Taiwan): 牆頭兒上開荒,能有幾分
Pinyin: qiáng tóur shàng kāihuāng,néng yǒu jǐfēn
Bopomofo: ㄑㄧㄤˊ ㄊㄡˊㄦㄕㄤˋ ㄎㄞㄏㄨㄤ,ㄋㄥˊ ㄧㄡˇ ㄐㄧˇ ㄈㄣ

Written with HSK 5 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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