lit. to fish a needle from the sea; to find a needle in a haystack (idiom)
trad. 大海撈針
Also written 大海撈針【dà hǎi lāo zhēn】
Characters in this word
4大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
海
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surname Hai
- Pinyin
- Hǎi
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 2637 of 2500
捞
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to fish up, to dredge up
- Pinyin
- lāo
- Traditional
- 撈
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 11551 of 2500
针
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needle, pin, injection, stitch, CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- zhēn
- Traditional
- 針
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 9180 of 2500