逃之夭夭 — Chinese idiom
逃之夭夭
táo zhī yāo yāo
Meaning
- to escape without trace ; to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime)
- to show a clean pair of heels
Character by character
- 逃táoto abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following ph
- 夭yāoyoung, energetic; to die young
- 夭yāoyoung, energetic; to die young
Idioms sharing a character
- 仓皇出逃 cāng huáng chū táo
- 劫数难逃 jié shù nán táo
- 望风而逃 wàng fēng ér táo
- 死里逃生 sǐ lǐ táo shēng
- 法网难逃 fǎ wǎng nán táo
- 逃过一劫 táo guò yī jié
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 一孔之见 yī kǒng zhī jiàn
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.