三顧茅廬 — san1 gu4 mao2 lu2

1

san¹

lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 [San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 [Liu2 Bei4] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 [Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] to his cause by visiting him three times)/fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb

2

gu⁴

lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 [San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 [Liu2 Bei4] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 [Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] to his cause by visiting him three times)/fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb

3

mao²

lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 [San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 [Liu2 Bei4] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 [Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] to his cause by visiting him three times)/fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb

4

lu²

lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 [San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 [Liu2 Bei4] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 [Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] to his cause by visiting him three times)/fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb

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