袖手旁觀

to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger

Characters and words in 袖手旁觀

sleeve / to tuck inside one's sleeve

袖 = 由 + 衤 : Marie Curie (xi) is on a party in the outhouse. In the bathroom (ou4) she prepares to continue to party by tucking a cuba libre (由) into the sleeve (袖) of her royal ermine coat (衤).

手

shǒu = sh + ou3

hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

旁

páng = p + ang2

one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)

旁 = 六 + 冖 + 方 : Mnemonic symbol: bourbon, 波旁.

The beast (六) just entered the anglepod (ang2) and got a quest from Pinocchio (p). Pinocchio asked the beast to fit a cooking top (冖) into a square (方). If he succeeds, he'll get a bottle of bourbon (旁), so the beast is jumping on the cooking top madly trying to push it through the square.

旁

páng

观

觀

gua̅n

spectator / non-participant

观

觀

guàn = gu + an4

surname Guan

观

觀

gua̅n = gu + an1

to look at / to watch / to observe / to behold / to advise / concept / point of view / outlook

观 = 又 + 见 : In front of the anthill several surveillance cameras are closely observing Gitta Giraffe's boxing training progress. She also closely watches the cameras and practices her punches until she is ready to box every one of them into oblivion.

观

觀

guàn = gu + an4

Taoist monastery / palace gate watchtower / platform

Words with 袖手旁觀

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Sentences with 袖手旁觀

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