Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「守株待兔」, with details below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「守株待兔」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Plant: The root of a tree that is exposed above the ground. Originally a metaphor for the mentality of hoping to succeed without any effort. It is now also used to describe sticking to narrow experience and being unable to adapt.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǒu zhū dài tù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sau2 jyu1 doi6 tou3
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
