寸草不生
Traditional form:
寸草不生
Pinyin (reading):
cùncǎobùshēng
Definitions:
- lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom)
- fig. barren
Characters:
- 寸 - inch; small, tiny
- 草 - grass, herbs; straw, thatch
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
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