逍遥自得 — Chinese idiom
逍遥自得
xiāo yáo zì dé
Traditional: 逍遙自得
Meaning
- doing as one pleases ; foot-loose and fancy free
Character by character
- 逍xiāoto ramble, to stroll; to jaunt, to loiter
- 遥yáodistant, remote
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 得déto obtain, to get, to acquire; suitable, proper; r
Idioms sharing a character
- 逍遥法外 xiāo yáo fǎ wài
- 逍遥自在 xiāo yáo zì zai
- 遥遥无期 yáo yáo wú qī
- 遥遥领先 yáo yáo lǐng xiān
- 不敢自专 bù gǎn zì zhuān
- 不由自主 bù yóu zì zhǔ
- 不自量力 bù zì liàng lì
- 不言自明 bù yán zì míng
- 任其自然 rèn qí zì rán
- 作茧自缚 zuò jiǎn zì fù
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