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守株待兔
shǒu​zhū​dài​tù HSK7

wait idly

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
守株待兔 shǒu​zhū​dài​tù
wait idly idiom
To wait passively for luck or opportunities instead of taking initiative; literally to guard a tree-stump waiting for rabbits.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.830 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.745 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)