望梅止渴 Save Sign in to save words wàngméizhǐkě ㄨㄤˋ ㄇㄟˊ ㄓˇ ㄎㄜˇ lit. to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums (idiom) fig. to console oneself with illusions Character by character 望(wàng)full moon 梅(méi)surname Mei 止(zhǐ)stop 渴(kě)thirsty A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0