守株待兔 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. shǒuzhūdàitù ㄕㄡˇ ㄓㄨ ㄉㄞˋ ㄊㄨˋ lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom) to wait idly for opportunities to trust to chance rather than show initiative Character by character 守(shǒu)guard 株(zhū)tree trunk 待(dài)wait 兔(tù)rabbit A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT