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三顾茅庐

sān gù máo lú

4-character word Traditional 三顧茅廬

What 三顾茅庐 means

1. lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms {三国演义|Sān guó Yǎn yì} in which Liu Bei {刘备|Liú Bèi} recruits Zhuge Liang {诸葛亮|Zhū gě Liàng} to his cause by visiting him three times)
2. fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb

The characters in 三顾茅庐

• 三sānthree; 3
• 顾gùto look after; to take into consideration; to attend to
• 茅máoreeds; rushes
• 庐lúhut