坐困

Chinese

		to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.)	distress; sleepy; doze off
simp. and trad. (坐困)		坐	困

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zuòkùn

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄎㄨㄣˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zuòkùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄎㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zuòkùn
    • Wade–Giles: tso⁴-kʻun⁴
    • Yale: dzwò-kwùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuohkuenn
    • Palladius: цзокунь (czokunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰu̯ən⁵¹/

Verb

坐困

1. to be confined; to be walled in; to be shut up

   • 不這樣做，就會弄出遲疑坐困的錯誤，實際上適合了敵人的戰略要求，陷自己於被動地位。 [MSC, trad.]
     不这样做，就会弄出迟疑坐困的错误，实际上适合了敌人的战略要求，陷自己于被动地位。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Bù zhèyàng zuò, jiù huì nòngchū chíyí zuòkùn de cuòwù, shíjìshàng shìhé le dírén de zhànlüè yāoqiú, xiàn zìjǐ yú bèidòng dìwèi. [Pinyin]

     Failure to make such a plan will lead to the mistake of hesitating and allowing oneself to be tied down, which in fact serves the enemy's strategic objects and reduces one to a passive position.