袖手旁觀 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 袖手旁观 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. xiùshǒupángguān ㄒㄧㄡˋ ㄕㄡˇ ㄆㄤˊ ㄍㄨㄢ to watch with folded arms (idiom) to look on without lifting a finger Character by character 袖(xiù)sleeve 手(shǒu)hand 旁(páng)one side 觀(guān)look at 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