to bide one's time, waiting for an opportunity to stage a comeback in public life (idiom)
trad. 遵時養晦
Also written 遵時養晦【zūn shí yǎng huì】
Characters in this word
4遵
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to observe, to obey, to follow, to comply with
- Pinyin
- zūn
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 33485 of 2500
时
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old variant of 時|时[shi2]
- Pinyin
- shí
- Traditional
- 旹
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 224 of 2500
养
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to raise (animals), to bring up (children), to keep (pets), to support, to give birth
- Pinyin
- yǎng
- Traditional
- 養
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 3496 of 2500
晦
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(bound form) last day of a lunar month, (bound form) dark; gloomy, (literary) night
- Pinyin
- huì
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 18542 of 2500