伺机
sì​jī HSK7

wait for opportunity

伺机 (伺機) sì​jī
wait for opportunity adverb
to wait for or watch for a favorable opportunity or chance to act

他在星期六的晚上伺机作案。

tā zài Xīng​qī​liù de wǎn​shang sì​jī zuò'àn.

He waited for an opportunity to commit a crime on Saturday night.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.28 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.60 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

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