市骏
shì​jùn

to seek talent

  • created reference approved 市骏/市駿 → 千金市骨 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    市骏 / 市駿 shì​jùn

    千金市骨 qiān​jīn​shì​gǔ

    synonym

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  • created sense approved 市骏/市駿 · shì​jùn · to seek talent — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    市骏 / 市駿

    shì​jùn

    to seek talent

    (literary) to buy a fine horse; used as a metaphor for seeking out and recruiting talented people. Based on the story of the [[千金市骨|千金市骨|qian1 jin1 shi4 gu3]] where a king paid a high price for the bones of a swift horse to show his sincerity in seeking live ones

    市 (literal) → 市 · shì · to trade 骏 (literal) → 骏/駿 · jùn · spirited horse

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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