Read Edit View history 隔岸观火 gé'ànguānhuǒ bystander Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 隔岸观火 (隔岸觀火) gé'ànguānhuǒ bystander expression to delay entering a conflict until others have exhausted themselves; to be an indifferent bystander to others' misfortune watch fire expression to watch the fires burning across the river Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.258 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
隔岸观火 (隔岸觀火) gé'ànguānhuǒ bystander expression to delay entering a conflict until others have exhausted themselves; to be an indifferent bystander to others' misfortune watch fire expression to watch the fires burning across the river Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.258 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)