大海捞针 (大海撈針)
dà hǎi lāo zhēn
Pinyin

Definition

大海捞针 (大海撈針)
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dà hǎi lāo zhēn
  1. lit. to fish a needle from the sea
  2. to find a needle in a haystack (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上海
Shàng hǎi
  1. 1 Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hù]
大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大学
Dà xué
  1. 1 the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Sì shū] in Confucianism
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert

Idioms (20)

不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
人不可貌相，海水不可斗量
rén bù kě mào xiàng , hǎi shuǐ bù kě dǒu liáng
  1. 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
侯门似海
hóu mén sì hǎi
  1. 1 lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea
  2. 2 there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我悻悻地回到寝室，心里想，要在那么多人里找寻一个背影，真的像大海捞针一样。或许，桃花运真的还没来......
wǒ xìngxìng de huí dào qǐnshì ，xīnli xiǎng ，yào zài nàme duō rén lǐ zhǎoxún yī ge bèiyǐng ，zhēnde xiàng dàhǎi lāo zhēn yīyàng 。huòxǔ ，táohuā yùn zhēnde hái méi lái ......
Resentfully, I went back to my dormitory. I thought to myself that searching for this vision of a girl in such a sea of people really was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Perhaps my lucky chance hadn't come after all...
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