Chinese · Idiom Attested

车载斗量

chē zài dǒu liáng

In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.

Traditional: 車載斗量

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

So numerous that they could be carted away by the load and measured out by the peck. Said of people or things of a kind that are plentiful and therefore nothing special.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Nhiều đến mức phải lấy xe mà chở, lấy đấu mà đong: nhiều vô kể nên chẳng có gì quý hiếm. Thường nói về một loại người hay vật có rất nhiều, không có gì đặc biệt.

Literally: loaded on carts, measured out in pecks

Examples

现在会说英语的人车载斗量，一点也不稀奇。Xiànzài huì shuō Yīngyǔ de rén chē zài dǒu liáng, yīdiǎn yě bù xīqí.People who can speak English are everywhere these days; it's nothing special.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 量 = lương · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “xa tải đấu lương” (xa-tai-dau-luong). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Equivalents & related

Hán-Việt cognate xa tải đấu lương Carted and measured by the bushel — the mediocre come in bulk; excellence is counted by the piece. Tiếng Việt

Common questions

What does “车载斗量” mean?

So numerous that they could be carted away by the load and measured out by the peck. Said of people or things of a kind that are plentiful and therefore nothing special. Literally: loaded on carts, measured out in pecks

Is “车载斗量” formal or informal?

车载斗量 is generally literary.

👁 Views 0 today 0 past 7 days 0 this month 0 all time