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缘木求鱼
yuán​mù​qiú​yú

futile effort

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
缘木求鱼 (緣木求魚) yuán​mù​qiú​yú
futile effort verb
lit. climb a tree to catch a fish; fig. to attempt the impossible

Frequency

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0.190 per million

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Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)