lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb); fig. to be a dog in the manger
trad. 占著茅坑不拉屎
Also written 占著茅坑不拉屎【zhàn zhe máo kēng bù lā shǐ】
Characters in this word
7占
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variant of 占[zhan4]
- Pinyin
- zhàn
- Traditional
- 佔
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 3867 of 2500
着
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variant of 著|着[zhao1]
- Pinyin
- zhāo
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 71 of 2500
茅
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surname Mao
- Pinyin
- Máo
- Strokes
- 8
坑
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pit; hollow; depression, (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel, (literary) to bury alive, (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- Pinyin
- kēng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 8265 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
拉
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to pull, to play (a bowed instrument), to drag, to draw, to chat, (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- Pinyin
- lā
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 645 of 2500
屎
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feces; excrement; a stool, (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
- Pinyin
- shǐ
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 3088 of 2500