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Definition(s) for: 兔子不吃窝边草

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
兔子不吃窝边草 tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo - lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying)
- fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 74,132 33,579

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
兔 tù- rabbit
兔 tù- variant of 兔[tu4]
子 zǐ- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
子 zi- (noun suffix)
不 bù- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
吃 chī- to eat; to consume
- to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- to eradicate; to destroy
- to absorb
- to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
吃 chī- variant of 吃[chi1]
窝 wō- nest
- pit or hollow on the human body
- lair
- den
- place
- to harbor or shelter
- to hold in check
- to bend
- classifier for litters and broods
边 biān- side
- edge
- margin
- border
- boundary
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- simultaneously
边 bian- suffix of a noun of locality
草 cǎo- grass
- straw
- manuscript
- draft (of a document)
- careless
- rough
- CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
草 cào- variant of 肏[cao4]
草 cǎo- variant of 草[cao3]

Other Words Containing 兔子不吃窝边草

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