刻舟求剑 | Pandaist

kè zhōu qiú jiàn

刻

舟

求

剑

Traditional

刻

舟

求

劒

Part of Speech

set phrase

Definitionlit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances

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