坐吃山空 zuò chī shān kōng

fig. to spend one's money without generating any income

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 76269th word

Definitions

  1. 1. fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
  2. 2. lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom)

Characters

Character Meaning
坐 zuò HSK 1
to sit; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to take a seat
吃 chī HSK 1
to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
山 shān HSK 3
mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain
空 kōng HSK 3
empty; sky; air