文山会海

wén shān huì hǎi

Definitions

1. a mountain of paperwork and a sea of meetings (idiom)

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Child Words of 文山会海

• 山 山 shān: mountain; hill (CL:座[zuò])
• 文 文 wén: language
• 会 会 kuài: to balance an account
• 海 海 hǎi: ocean
• 会 会 huì: can
• 文山 文山 wén shān: Wenshan County in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[wén shān zhuàng zú miáo zú zì zhì zhōu], Yunnan