to sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides; to sit on the fence
trad. 坐觀成敗
Also written 坐觀成敗【zuò guān chéng bài】
Characters in this word
4坐
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surname Zuo
- Pinyin
- Zuò
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 401 of 2500
观
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surname Guan
- Pinyin
- Guàn
- Traditional
- 觀
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 33499 of 2500
成
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surname Cheng, short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]
- Pinyin
- Chéng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 677 of 2500
败
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to defeat, to damage, to lose (to an opponent), to fail, to wither
- Pinyin
- bài
- Traditional
- 敗
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 24234 of 2500