緣木求魚
yuán​mù​qiú​yú

fruitless approach

  • created sense approved 缘木求鱼/緣木求魚 · yuán​mù​qiú​yú · fruitless approach — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    缘木求鱼 / 緣木求魚

    yuán​mù​qiú​yú

    fruitless approach

    literally climb a tree to catch a fish; a metaphor for using a wrong method or direction that makes it impossible to achieve one's goal

    缘 (literal) → 缘/緣 · yuán · to climb 木 (literal) → 木 · mù · tree 求 (literal) → 求 · qiú · to seek 鱼 (literal) → 鱼/魚 · yú · fish

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

    created sense