| 初出茅庐 |
chū chū máo lú |
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn |
| 初 |
chū |
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic |
| 出 |
chū |
to go out; to come out / to arise; to occur / to produce; to yield / to go beyond; to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 |
chū |
variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 茅 |
Máo |
surname Mao |
| 茅 |
máo |
reeds / rushes |
| 茅庐 |
máo lú |
thatched cottage |
| 庐 |
Lú |
surname Lu / Luzhou or Lu Prefecture 庐州, a prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in present-day Anhui / Mount Lu 庐山 in Jiangxi Province |
| 庐 |
lú |
hut |