躲懒

躲懶

duǒlǎn

verb #97,152

Meanings

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

Characters

Examples

HSK 2

队里有人躲懒，大家都不高兴。

Duìlǐ yǒurén duǒlǎn, dàjiā dōu bù gāoxìng.

Someone on the team is slacking and nobody's happy about it.

HSK 7-9

他总是找各种借口躲懒。

Tā zǒngshì zhǎo gèzhǒng jièkǒu duǒlǎn.

He's always finding excuses to slack off.

Tips

memory

躲 'to hide, dodge' + 懒 'lazy' = 'to dodge into laziness'. The standard sense is 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

躲 duǒ

懒 lǎn