Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「杯水輿薪」, with its explanation below.
Introducing the idiom 「杯水輿薪」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It is a metaphor for being of little use. Same as “a drop in the bucket”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bēi shuǐ yú xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bui1 seui2 yu4 san1
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