坐观成败 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 坐觀成敗 zuòguānchéngbài ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄔㄥˊ ㄅㄞˋ 男 女 to sit and await success or failure (idiom) to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides to sit on the fence Character by character 坐(zuò)sit 观(guān)look at 成(chéng)succeed 败(bài)fail Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0