粥

see 葷粥|荤粥[Xun1 yu4]

congee / gruel / porridge / CL:碗[wan3]

a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)

rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

Character component without intrinsic meaning

(lit.) a pot of porridge / (fig.) a complete mess

lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom) / fig. not enough to go around / demand exceeds supply

rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc

atherosclerosis

to provide alms and rice (idiom)

to talk endlessly on the phone

oatmeal / porridge

plain rice congee

lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1]