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
拖尾巴
tuō​wěi​ba

to leave loose ends; to be a drag on

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
拖尾巴 tuō//wěi​ba
to leave loose ends; to be a drag on
(colloquial) to leave a task unfinished; to hinder someone or hold others back from making progress

Frequency

Written text
0.010 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 扯腿 chě​tuǐ

Sources

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