抄底

chāodǐ

verb

Meanings

Gǔshì bàodié, hěn duō rén xiǎng chāodǐ.

The stock market crashed, and many people want to buy the bottom.

Tā chāodǐ mǎile yī tào xuéqūfáng.

He snapped up a school-district apartment at the bottom of the market.

Bié jí zhe chāodǐ, hái huì diē.

Don't rush to bottom-fish, it'll keep falling.

memory

抄 'scoop up' + 底 'bottom' — scoop up from the bottom, exactly like the English 'bottom-fishing'.

抄 chāo

底 dǐ