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三个和尚没水喝

sān gè hé shang méi shuǐ hē

7-character word Traditional 三個和尚沒水喝

What 三个和尚没水喝 means

1. lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
2. fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
3. (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

The characters in 三个和尚没水喝

• 三sānthree; 3
• 个gè(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
• 和hé(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn); (math) sum; to make peace
• 尚shàngstill; yet; to value
• 没méi(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 喝hēto drink; variant of 嗬