三顾茅庐

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 sānguóyǎnyì in which Liu Bei 刘备 liúbèi recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 zhūgěliàng to his cause by visiting him three times)
2. • fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb

Character by character

• 三(sān)three
• 顾(gù)look after
• 茅(máo)reeds
• 庐(lú)hut