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三顾茅庐

Word

lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 (Sān guó Yǎn yì) in which Liu Bei 刘备 (Liú Bèi) recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 (Zhū gě Liàng) to his cause by visiting him three times)

Traditional
三顧茅廬

sān gù máo lú

san1gu4mao2lu2

Meaning

  1. lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 (Sān guó Yǎn yì) in which Liu Bei 刘备 (Liú Bèi) recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 (Zhū gě Liàng) to his cause by visiting him three times) CC-CEDICT
  2. fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb CC-CEDICT

Characters in 三顾茅庐

三sān顾gù茅máo庐lú
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