The Chinese idiom 守株待兔 is formed by sequentially combining the characters 守 (guard), 株 (tree stump), 待 (wait for), and 兔 (rabbit) to literally depict the action of guarding a stump while waiting for rabbits, derived from a fable where a farmer, after a rabbit accidentally died by hitting a stump, passively waits for more rabbits to repeat the event, thus creating a compound word with a metaphorical meaning.