首鼠
shǒu​shǔ

to be hesitant

  • created reference approved 首鼠 → 首鼠两端/首鼠兩端 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    首鼠 shǒu​shǔ

    首鼠两端 / 首鼠兩端 shǒu​shǔ​liǎng​duān

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 首鼠 · shǒu​shǔ · to be hesitant — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    首鼠

    shǒu​shǔ

    to be hesitant

    to be undecided or hesitant about a course of action; to waver or hesitate. Often used in the four-character expression [[首鼠两端|首鼠兩端|shou3 shu3 liang3 duan1]]

    首 (literal) → 首 · shǒu · head 鼠 (literal) → 鼠 · shǔ · rat

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense