(lit.) a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying); (fig.) even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
trad. 兔子不吃窩邊草
Also written 兔子不吃窩邊草【tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo】
Characters in this word
7兔
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variant of 兔[tu4]
- Pinyin
- tù
- Traditional
- 兎
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 13446 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
吃
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to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
窝
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nest, pit or hollow on the human body, lair, den, place, to harbor or shelter, to hold in check, to bend, classifier for litters and broods
- Pinyin
- wō
- Traditional
- 窩
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 9619 of 2500
边
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side, edge, margin, border, boundary, CL:個|个[ge4], simultaneously
- Pinyin
- biān
- Traditional
- 邊
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 2075 of 2500
草
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variant of 草[cao3]
- Pinyin
- cǎo
- Traditional
- 艸
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 4715 of 2500