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举棋不定

jǔ qí bù dìng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 舉棋不定

举棋不定 (jǔ qí bù dìng) means "to hesitate over what move to make (idiom); to waver; to shilly-shally". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 举棋不定 means

1. to hesitate over what move to make (idiom); to waver
2. to shilly-shally

The characters in 举棋不定

• 举jǔto lift; to hold up; to cite
• 棋qíchess; chess-like game; a game of chess
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…

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