躲懒

躲懶
duǒlǎn
verb #97,152

Meanings

  1. 1 to shy away from work
  2. 2 to slack off; goof off

Examples

Tā zǒngshì zhǎo gè zhǒng jièkǒu duǒlǎn.
He's always finding excuses to slack off.
Duì lǐ yǒu rén duǒlǎn, dàjiā dōu bù gāoxìng.
Someone on the team is slacking and nobody's happy about it.

Tips

memory
'to hide, dodge' + 'lazy' = 'to dodge into laziness'. Per 《新华词典》: 逃避工作劳动偷懒 ('to dodge work or labor; to be lazy on the sly'). The picture is someone literally hiding to avoid being assigned a task.

Stroke Order

duǒ
lǎn