原地踏步 Save Sign in to save words yuándìtàbù ㄩㄢˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄊㄚˋ ㄅㄨˋ to mark time (military) to make no headway Character by character 原(yuán)surname Yuan 地(dì)earth 踏(tà)tread 步(bù)surname Bu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0