大海撈針 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 大海捞针 dàhǎilāozhēn ㄉㄚˋ ㄏㄞˇ ㄌㄠ ㄓㄣ 男 女 lit. to fish a needle from the sea to find a needle in a haystack (idiom) Character by character 大(dà)big 海(hǎi)sea 撈(lāo)fish up 針(zhēn)needle Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0