to wait helplessly for death (idiom); to resign oneself to extinction
trad. 束手待斃
Also written 束手待斃【shù shǒu dài bì】
Characters in this word
4束
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surname Shu
- Pinyin
- Shù
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 32220 of 2500
手
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hand, (formal) to hold, person engaged in certain types of work, person skilled in certain types of work, personal(ly), convenient, classifier for skill, CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- shǒu
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 490 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