See How Fast You Can Learn Chinese

Try our interactive spaced repetition demo—study your first words in 60 seconds

Interactive demo Takes 60 seconds No sign-up needed

探骊得珠

tàn lí dé zhū

Sign in to save this word to your study lists.

Definitions

1. to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)
2. to see through to the nub

Child Words of 探骊得珠

black horse

structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc

to have to

bead

to explore

to obtain