可遇不可求
Traditional form:
可遇不可求
Pinyin (reading):
kěyùbùkěqiú
Definitions:
- can be discovered but not sought (idiom)
- one can only come across such things serendipitously
Characters:
- 可 - may, can, -able; possibly
- 遇 - to meet, to encounter, to come across
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可 - may, can, -able; possibly
- 求 - to seek; to request, to demand; to beseech, to beg for
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