得魚忘筌 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 得鱼忘筌 déyúwàngquán ㄉㄜˊ ㄩˊ ㄨㄤˋ ㄑㄩㄢˊ lit. catch fish then forget the trap (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子 zhuāngzǐ) fig. to take help for granted Character by character 得(dé)get 魚(yú)surname Yu 忘(wàng)forget 筌(quán)bamboo fish trap A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0