"水內撈月" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "水内捞月",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "水裡撈月"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "水內撈月",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to scoop (the reflection of) the moon out of the water",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese chengyu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hokkien chengyu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Xiamen Hokkien",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make a hopeless, futile or vain effort at doing something; to ask for the moon"
      ],
      "id": "en-水內撈月-zh-phrase-aIAHP2Bz",
      "links": [
        [
          "hopeless",
          "hopeless"
        ],
        [
          "futile",
          "futile"
        ],
        [
          "vain",
          "vain"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ],
        [
          "ask for the moon",
          "ask for the moon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Xiamen Hokkien, figurative) to make a hopeless, futile or vain effort at doing something; to ask for the moon"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "shuǐzhōng-lāoyuè",
          "word": "水中撈月／水中捞月"
        },
        {
          "roman": "shuǐzhōng-lāoyuè",
          "word": "水中撈月"
        },
        {
          "roman": "shuǐzhōng-lāoyuè",
          "word": "水中捞月"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "海底摸月"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "zh-pron": "chúi-lāi-hô͘-ge̍h"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chúi-lāi-hô͘-ge̍h"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tsuí-lāi-hôo-ge̍h"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "zuylaixho'geh"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lai²²⁻²¹ hɔ²⁴⁻²² ɡeʔ⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lai²²⁻²¹ hɔ²⁴⁻²² ɡeʔ⁴/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "水內撈月"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "水内捞月",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "水裡撈月"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "水內撈月",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to scoop (the reflection of) the moon out of the water",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese chengyu",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 內",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 撈",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 月",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 水",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Hokkien chengyu",
        "Hokkien idioms",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Xiamen Hokkien"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make a hopeless, futile or vain effort at doing something; to ask for the moon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hopeless",
          "hopeless"
        ],
        [
          "futile",
          "futile"
        ],
        [
          "vain",
          "vain"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ],
        [
          "ask for the moon",
          "ask for the moon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Xiamen Hokkien, figurative) to make a hopeless, futile or vain effort at doing something; to ask for the moon"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "zh-pron": "chúi-lāi-hô͘-ge̍h"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chúi-lāi-hô͘-ge̍h"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tsuí-lāi-hôo-ge̍h"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "zuylaixho'geh"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lai²²⁻²¹ hɔ²⁴⁻²² ɡeʔ⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lai²²⁻²¹ hɔ²⁴⁻²² ɡeʔ⁴/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "shuǐzhōng-lāoyuè",
      "word": "水中撈月／水中捞月"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shuǐzhōng-lāoyuè",
      "word": "水中撈月"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shuǐzhōng-lāoyuè",
      "word": "水中捞月"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "海底摸月"
    }
  ],
  "word": "水內撈月"
}