字 Chinese Character Wiki Wiki
Log in
  • Home
  • Search
  • Articles
  • Lists
  • Recent Changes
  • My Edits
  • Character Builder
Preferences
Theme
Characters
Phonetic
  • Dong Chinese
Read Edit View history
坐以待旦
zuò​yǐ​dài​dàn

to sit and wait for dawn

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
坐以待旦 zuò​yǐ​dài​dàn
to sit and wait for dawn
(idiom) to sit up and wait for the break of day; to remain awake throughout the night, often describing someone who is hardworking or deeply concerned about their duties or extremely anxious

Frequency

Written text
0.004 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
CC BY-SA 4.0 Data licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0