Characters
- 袖 (袖): sleeve; to tuck inside one's sleeve
- 手 (手): hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- 旁 (旁): one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- 观 (觀): surname Guan
Resources
- Wiktionary: 袖手旁观
- MDBG: 袖手旁观
- Examples with 袖手旁观 on Tatoeba
Examples
你要是不答应的话，我就袖手旁观。
只要好人袖手旁观，恶人就会得胜。