三顾茅庐 sān gù máo lú

lit. three humble visits to a thatched cottage

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 69424th word

Definitions

  1. 1. lit. three humble visits to a thatched cottage
  2. 2. cf famous episode in the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms sān guó yǎn yì in which Liu Bei liú bèi recruits Zhuge Liang zhū gě liàng (the Hidden Dragon wò lóng) to his cause by visiting him three times

Characters

Character Meaning
three; 3; surname San
to look after; to attend to; to take into consideration
reeds; rushes; surname Mao
hut