to hold one's breath (in anticipation) (idiom); to anxiously await
trad. 翹首以待
Also written 翹首以待【qiáo shǒu yǐ dài】
Characters in this word
4翘
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outstanding, to raise
- Pinyin
- qiáo
- Traditional
- 翹
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 13331 of 2500
首
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head, chief, first (occasion, thing etc), classifier for poems, songs etc
- Pinyin
- shǒu
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 13188 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