Read Edit View history 缘木求鱼 yuánmùqiúyú futile effort Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 缘木求鱼 (緣木求魚) yuánmùqiúyú futile effort verb lit. climb a tree to catch a fish; fig. to attempt the impossible Frequency Written text 0.190 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
缘木求鱼 (緣木求魚) yuánmùqiúyú futile effort verb lit. climb a tree to catch a fish; fig. to attempt the impossible Frequency Written text 0.190 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)