水中撈月 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 水中捞月 shuǐzhōnglāoyuè ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄌㄠ ㄩㄝˋ to scoop the moon out of the water (idiom) lit. a hopeless endeavor fig. Character by character 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 中(zhōng)middle 撈(lāo)fish up 月(yuè)moon A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0