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拭shì目mù以yǐ待dài

  1. lit. to wipe one's eyes and wait (idiom); to wait and see

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Characters in this word

4
拭
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to wipe

Pinyin
shì
Strokes
9
Words starting with 拭Words ending in 拭Anywhere in a word
目
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

eye, (literary) to look; to regard, eye (of a net); mesh, mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]), item; section, list; catalogue, (taxonomy) order, name; title

Pinyin
mù
Strokes
5
Frequency
15224 of 2500
Words starting with 目Words ending in 目Anywhere in a word
以
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

old variant of 以[yi3]

Pinyin
yǐ
Traditional
㕥
Strokes
4
Frequency
367 of 2500
Words starting with 以Words ending in 以Anywhere in a word
待
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to stay; to remain

Pinyin
dāi
Strokes
9
Frequency
624 of 2500
Words starting with 待Words ending in 待Anywhere in a word