涸轍之鮒 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 涸辙之鲋 hézhézhīfù ㄏㄜˊ ㄓㄜˊ ㄓ ㄈㄨˋ lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom) fig. a person in dire straits Character by character 涸(hé)dry 轍(zhé)rut 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 鮒(fù)silver carp A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0