蹉跎 cuōtuó

cuōtuó verb to waste time; to take a wrong step in life
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time

Contained in

• 日月蹉跎 the years have slipped by
• 年已蹉跎 the years have already gone by; to be too old

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二 Scroll 2 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 卷二十二 Scroll 22 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
• 《足部》 Zú Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 2
• 第十一回 Chapter 11 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 卷一百六十二 列傳第五十 尹昌隆 耿通 戴綸 陳祚 劉球 陳鑑 鍾同 章綸 廖莊 倪敬 楊瑄 Volume 162 Biographies 50: Yin Changlong, Geng Tong, Dai Lun, Chen Zuo, Liu Qiu, Chen Jian, Zhong Tong, Zhang Lun, Liao Zhuang, Ni Jing, Yang Xuan History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
• 卷一百四十八 志10: 選舉志 Volume 148: Treatises 10 Selection of Officials Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 1
• 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 第二十回 Chapter 20 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 卷一百三十四 僭偽列傳一: 楊行密 李昪 王審知 Volume 134: Biographies of Usurpers 1 - Yang Xingmi, Li Bian, Wang Shenzhi Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 1
• 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1

Collocations

• 阪蹉跎 (阪蹉跎) 中阪蹉跎 — Songs of Chu 楚辭, 卷第十五 九懷 Chapter 15: Nine Regrets — count: 3