拱手旁觀

拱
拱
手
手
旁
旁
观
觀
to watch from the sidelines and do nothing (idiom)

Characters and words in 拱手旁觀

拱
gǒng = gu + (e)ng3
to cup one's hands in salute / to surround / to arch / to dig earth with the snout / arched
拱
手
to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting / (fig.) submissive
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
旁
观
觀
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 拱手旁觀

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