难以捉摸 |
nán yǐ zhuō mō |
elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic |
难 |
nán |
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good |
难 |
nàn |
disaster / distress / to scold |
难以 |
nán yǐ |
hard to (predict, imagine etc) |
以 |
yǐ |
old variant of 以 |
以 |
yǐ |
old variant of 以 |
以 |
Yǐ |
abbr. for Israel 以色列 |
以 |
yǐ |
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place) |
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 |