探骊得珠(tàn lí dé zhū)

4 charactersTrad. 探驪得珠

to pluck a pearl from the black dragon…

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Word information

Pinyin
tàn lí dé zhū
Meaning
to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)
HSK level
Characters
4
Traditional
探驪得珠

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