緣木求魚 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 缘木求鱼 yuánmùqiúyú ㄩㄢˊ ㄇㄨˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ ㄩˊ lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom) fig. to attempt the impossible Character by character 緣(yuán)cause 木(mù)surname Mu 求(qiú)seek 魚(yú)surname Yu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0