三顾茅庐(sān gù máo lú): lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom)…
lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom)…
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Word information
- Pinyin
- sān gù máo lú
- Meaning
- lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 in which Liu Bei 刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 to his cause by visiting him three times)
- HSK level
- —
- Characters
- 4
- Traditional
- 三顧茅廬
Related words
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variant of 一唱三叹
(idiom) (of literature or music) concise yet deeply evocative; inviting repeated savoring
a single day apart seems like three seasons (idiom)
to have three meals a day
lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar)…
calligraphic flourish with many twists
pseudoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng), hemostatic herb
ratio seventy to thirty
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