順藤摸瓜

seon6 tang4 mo2 gwaa1

lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon · to track sth following clues

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon
  2. to track sth following clues

Written Forms

順藤摸瓜Traditional · Main Form
顺藤摸瓜Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0