


擿植索涂 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to grope about blindly”. To search painstakingly in the dark or unfamiliar circumstances, like a blind person tapping the ground with a stick to find a path. Literally, “Tap stick search path”.

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Open the tool →擿植索涂 (zhāi zhí suǒ tú) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to grope about blindly”.
擿植索涂 is pronounced zhāi zhí suǒ tú in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 擿植索涂 means “Tap stick search path”. It is used to mean “to grope about blindly”.
谓盲人以杖点地摸索道路。常喻暗中求索。同“擿埴索涂”。