to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
trad. 坐以待斃
Also written 坐以待斃【zuò yǐ dài bì】
Characters in this word
4坐
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surname Zuo
- Pinyin
- Zuò
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 401 of 2500
以
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old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
待
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to stay; to remain
- Pinyin
- dāi
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 624 of 2500
毙
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to die, to shoot dead, to reject, to fall forward, (suffix) to death
- Pinyin
- bì
- Traditional
- 斃
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 6909 of 2500