Chinese Idioms - Chengyu

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    literally like a sheet of loose sand

    yī
    一
    pán
    盘
    sǎn
    散
    shā
    沙
    一盘散沙
    yī pán sǎn shā

    Different translations of this Chinese idiom or chengyu

    • literally like a sheet of loose sand
    • fig. unable to cooperate

    Word by word translation of this Chinese idiom

    一
    yī
    one / 1 / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
    盘
    pán
    plate / dish / tray / board / to build / to coil / to check / to examine / to transfer (property) / to make over / classifier for food: dish, helping / classifier for coils of wire / classifier for games of chess
    散
    sǎn
    scattered / loose / to come loose / to fall apart / leisurely / powdered medicine
    sàn
    to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack / variant of 散[sàn]
    沙
    shā
    granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / surname Sha / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia / CL:粒[lì]
    Data is based on CC-CEDICT. See the full data in action here MDBG Chinese-English dictionary.

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