涸辙之鲋
Traditional form:
涸轍之鮒
Pinyin (reading):
hézhézhīfù
Definitions:
- lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom)
- fig. a person in dire straits
Characters:
- 涸 - tired, exhausted; dried up
- 辙 - track, rut; stuck in a rut
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 鲋 - carp; Carassicus auratus
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