mò trăng đáy nước
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futile effort
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futile effort
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Meaning
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Sense 1
Phrase
futile effort Discourse, Logic, Comparison & Modality
To make a futile or hopeless effort to achieve something that is clearly impossible to do.
vi Cố gắng thay đổi quá khứ chỉ là mò trăng đáy nước.
en Trying to change the past is just a futile effort.
Parts
mò / trăng / đáy …
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Parts
mò / trăng / đáy …
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
摸綾𡌠渃
Candidates by syllable
mò
摸（摹 / 𢱖 / 𢺀 / 𤂨）
trăng
綾（𢁋 / 𣎞）
đáy
𡌠（𢋠 / 𢋴 / 𣷳 / 𤀐）
nước
渃
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
mò kim đáy bể / mò / mò đỏ / mò trắng …
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Similar
mò kim đáy bể / mò / mò đỏ / mò trắng …
Use
tò mò / người mò rận / mày mò / nói mò …
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Use
tò mò / người mò rận / mày mò / nói mò …