戈多

Gēduō

popculture #37,750

Meanings

1 Godot (the never-arriving figure in Beckett's play)

Characters

dagger-axe (phonetic)

many (phonetic)

Examples

他们一直在等待戈多。

Tāmen yīzhí zài děngdài Gēduō.

They keep waiting for Godot.

这场改革就像戈多一样，永远不来。

Zhè chǎng gǎigé jiù xiàng Gēduō yīyàng, yǒngyuǎn bù lái.

This reform is like Godot — it will never actually arrive.

In Pop Culture

等待戈多 Děngdài Gēduō

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist play, in which two men wait endlessly for a figure named Godot who never appears. A standard reference in Chinese intellectual writing for any anticipated thing that fails to materialize.

Stroke Order

戈 gē

多 duō