席地而坐 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• to sit on the ground or the floor

Character by character

• 席xíseat, place; mat; banquet; to take a seat
• 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
• 而érand, and then, and yet; but
• 坐zuòseat; to sit; to ride, to travel by

Idioms sharing a character

• 虚席以待 xū xí yǐ dài
• 一败涂地 yī bài tú dì
• 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
• 不败之地 bù bài zhī dì
• 不毛之地 bù máo zhī dì
• 五体投地 wǔ tǐ tóu dì
• 人杰地灵 rén jié dì líng
• 人间地狱 rén jiān dì yù
• 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
• 呱呱坠地 gū gū zhuì dì

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