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求贤如渴
qiú​xián​rú​kě

to thirst for talent

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
求贤如渴 求賢如渴 qiú​xián​rú​kě
to thirst for talent
to seek out talented people as if one were thirsty for water; used to describe being extremely eager to find and recruit people of ability

Frequency

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0.002 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 求贤若渴 qiú​xián​ruò​kě

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)