limited capacity
Niuhuozhicen, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin Ni ú t í zh ī C é n, describes a small amount of water. It's also like being in a situation where you can't make a difference.
Pinyin
niútízhīcén
explain
There is very little water. It's also like being in a situation where you can't make a difference.
Classics
"Huainanzi · pan Lun Xun": a man can't have a tuna when he has a cow's hoof.
Huainanzi · Zhuzhen: the grain of ox hoof, the carp without feet.
In Yu Xin's for Qi Gong: Kuang Fu's tired song threatens the platform of nine stories; a stream of feet will hurt the driving of thousands of miles.
usage
As an object; used in figurative sentences.
Chinese PinYin : niú tí zhī cén
limited capacity
be like the three legs of a tripod. sān fēn dǐng zú
have ready plans to meet a situation. chéng zhú zài xiōng
mastermind with painstaking effort. kǔ xīn jīng yíng