鹊巢鸠占 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 鵲巢鳩占 quècháojiūzhàn ㄑㄩㄝˋ ㄔㄠˊ ㄐㄧㄡ ㄓㄢˋ the magpie made a nest, the turtledove dwells in it (idiom) to reap where one has not sown Character by character 鹊(què)magpie 巢(cháo)surname Chao 鸠(jiū)turtledove 占(zhàn)take possession of A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0