"踟躇" meaning in Chinese

See 踟躇 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰiː²¹ t͡sʰyː²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/, /t͡sʰiː²¹ t͡sʰyː²¹/ Chinese transliterations: chíchú [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄔˊ ㄔㄨˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ci⁴ cyu⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], chíchú [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], chíhchú [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], chʻih²-chʻu² [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], chŕ-chú [Mandarin, Yale], chyrchwu [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], чичу [Mandarin, Palladius], čiču [Mandarin, Palladius], chìh chyùh [Cantonese, Yale], tsi⁴ tsy⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], qi⁴ qu⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], drje drjo [Middle-Chinese], /*de da/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 踟躇
  1. to pace back and forth; to walk to and fro; to wander
    Sense id: en-踟躇-zh-verb-BqvIAKRx Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 13
  2. (figurative) to hesitate; to dither; to waver Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-踟躇-zh-verb-NxIJiCDl
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 彷徨 (pánghuáng), 徘徊, 盤旋 (pánxuán), 盘旋 (pánxuán), 盤桓 (pánhuán), 盘桓 (pánhuán), 走來走去 (zǒuláizǒuqù), 走来走去 (zǒuláizǒuqù), 踟躕 (chíchú), 踟蹰 (chíchú), 躑躅 (zhízhú), 踯躅 (zhízhú), 反顧 (fǎngù) [literary], 反顾 (fǎngù) [literary], 彳亍 (chìchù) [figuratively, literary], 彷徨 (pánghuáng) [figuratively], 徘徊 [figuratively], 拿不定主意 (nábùdìng zhǔyì), 游移 (yóuyí), 猶疑 (yóuyí), 犹疑 (yóuyí), 猶豫 (yóuyù), 犹豫 (yóuyù), 疑蟯 [Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 疑蛲 [Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 盤桓 (pánhuán) [figuratively], 盘桓 (pánhuán) [figuratively], (nyi4) [Sichuanese], (nyi4) [Sichuanese], 躊躇 (chóuchú), 踌躇 (chóuchú), 巡巡 (xúnxún) [literary], 逡巡 (qūnxún) [literary], 遲疑 (chíyí), 迟疑 (chíyí)
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      "zh-pron": "drje drjo"
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      "zh-pron": "/*de da/"
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    },
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      "word": "彷徨"
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      "word": "盤旋"
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      "roman": "zǒuláizǒuqù",
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      "word": "走来走去"
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    },
    {
      "roman": "nábùdìng zhǔyì",
      "word": "拿不定主意"
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      "roman": "yóuyí",
      "word": "游移"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yóuyí",
      "word": "猶疑"
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      "roman": "pánhuán",
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      "word": "盤桓"
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      "roman": "pánhuán",
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      "word": "遲疑"
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      "word": "迟疑"
    }
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}

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  "msg": "parse_linkage_recurse unhandled NodeKind.URL: <URL(['https://wiki.local/w/index.php?action=edit&title=Thesaurus%3A%E7%8C%B6%E8%B1%AB'], ['edit']){} >",
  "path": [
    "踟躇"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "踟躇",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.