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刻舟求劍
Mandarin: ke4 zhou1 qiu2 jian4
刻
T1
舟
T1
求
T4
劍
T3
Definitions
  1. 1 an action made pointless by changed circumstances (lit., "a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard")
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