| 捉摸不定 |
zhuō mō - bù dìng |
(idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down |
| 捉 |
zhuō |
to clutch / to grab / to capture |
| 捉摸 |
zhuō mō |
to fathom / to make sense of / to grasp |
| 摸 |
mō |
to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract |
| 摸 |
mó |
variant of 摹 |
| 不 |
bù |
no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 不定 |
bù dìng |
indefinite / indeterminate / (botany) adventitious |
| 定 |
dìng |
to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely |