三顾茅庐 (三顧茅廬) sān gù máo lú

sān gù máo lú set phrase three visits to a thatched cottage
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: Episode in the fiction ”Romance of Three Kingdoms” and also a Chinse idiom meaning to repeatedly request a capable person to accept a post (CC-CEDICT '三顧茅廬'; CCI '三顾茅庐', p. 101; Guoyu '三顧茅廬')

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 5 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 1
  • Scroll 24 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation