守株待兔 shǒuzhūdàitù HSK7 to wait for a windfall Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 守株待兔 shǒuzhūdàitù to wait for a windfall to wait idly for luck or unexpected gains instead of taking initiative; to trust to chance to be rigid to stick foolishly to narrow past experience without being flexible; to be stubbornly conservative Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.745 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Variant of 守株伺兔 shǒuzhūsìtùHas abbreviation 株守 zhūshǒu守株缘木 shǒuzhūyuánmùReferenced by 守株待兔,缘木求鱼 shǒuzhūdàitùyuánmùqiúyú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
守株待兔 shǒuzhūdàitù to wait for a windfall to wait idly for luck or unexpected gains instead of taking initiative; to trust to chance to be rigid to stick foolishly to narrow past experience without being flexible; to be stubbornly conservative Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.745 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Variant of 守株伺兔 shǒuzhūsìtùHas abbreviation 株守 zhūshǒu守株缘木 shǒuzhūyuánmùReferenced by 守株待兔,缘木求鱼 shǒuzhūdàitùyuánmùqiúyú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)