探骊得珠 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 探驪得珠 tànlídézhū ㄊㄢˋ ㄌㄧˊ ㄉㄜˊ ㄓㄨ to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi) fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation) to see through to the nub Character by character 探(tàn)explore 骊(lí)black horse 得(dé)get 珠(zhū)bead A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0