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Chinese dictionary
- 1
one monk will carry two buckets of water for his own use
- 2
everybody's business is nobody's business
Vocabulary of 一个和尚挑水吃，两个和尚抬水吃，三个和尚没水吃
- 一[hsk1]one; another
- 个[hsk3]used before nouns without fixed measure words of their own; used between a verb and its object
- 没[hsk1]not have; be without
- 两[hsk2]two; both sides
- 三[hsk1]three; more than two
- 水[hsk1]water; a general term for rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
- 吃[hsk1]eat; eat
- 挑[hsk5]poke; bring into the open
- 抬[hsk4]lift up; carry something with hands or shoulders
- 和尚Buddhist monk