Did you mean: to hatch to teach to watch to twitch ?
| 茨 | cí | Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris) / to thatch (a roof) |
| 三顾茅庐 | sān gù máo lú | lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4] to his cause by visiting him three times) / fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb |