蹉跎 cuōtuó to waste time Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 蹉跎 cuōtuó to waste time (literary) to waste or squander time; to let a chance slip away; to dillydally to slip and fall (literary) to lose one's footing and tumble; metaphorically used to describe being disappointed or frustrated in one's career or ambitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.912 per million Cross-References Referenced by 蹉 cuō跎 tuó Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
蹉跎 cuōtuó to waste time (literary) to waste or squander time; to let a chance slip away; to dillydally to slip and fall (literary) to lose one's footing and tumble; metaphorically used to describe being disappointed or frustrated in one's career or ambitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.912 per million Cross-References Referenced by 蹉 cuō跎 tuó Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)