lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom); fig. to do one's job mechanically; to hold a position passively
trad. 做一天和尚撞一天鐘
Also written 做一天和尚撞一天鐘【zuò yī tiān hé shang zhuàng yī tiān zhōng】
Characters in this word
7做
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to make; to produce, to write; to compose, to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc), (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc), (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for, to assume (an air or manner)
- Pinyin
- zuò
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 37 of 2500
一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
天
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day, sky, heaven
- Pinyin
- tiān
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 211 of 2500
和
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old variant of 和[he2]
- Pinyin
- hé
- Traditional
- 咊
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 27 of 2500
尚
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surname Shang
- Pinyin
- Shàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 11512 of 2500
撞
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to knock against, to bump into, to run into, to meet by accident
- Pinyin
- zhuàng
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 1525 of 2500
钟
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surname Zhong
- Pinyin
- Zhōng
- Traditional
- 鍾
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 6196 of 2500