三顾茅庐 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 三顧茅廬 Sign up for a free account to save words and hear them read aloud sāngùmáolú ㄙㄢ ㄍㄨˋ ㄇㄠˊ ㄌㄨˊ 男 女 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) 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 Sign up for a free Chinese Boost account Save the words and sentences you find here to your own list, and hear them read aloud. You can export the list to your flashcards whenever you like. Create a free account A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0