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游手好闲

yóu shǒu hào xiándictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
to idle about
Sources & editorial notes

Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-fa44a5e74b74465a. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

遊手好閑 游手好闲 [you2 shou3 hao4 xian2] /to idle about/

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Other forms in these source records: 遊手好閑

  • 游
    yóu

    to swim / to walk / to tour / to roam / to travel

    Yóu

    surname You

  • 手
    shǒu

    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[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]

  • 好
    hǎo

    good / appropriate / proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a form of address) hello

    hào

    to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

  • 闲
    xián

    enclosure / (variant of 閒|闲[xián]) idle / unoccupied / leisure / idle

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.