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如意算盘
rú​yì​suàn​pán

wishful thinking

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
如意算盘 如意算盤 rú​yì​suàn​pán
wishful thinking
a plan or calculation based on what one wants to happen rather than on reality; smug calculation; to count one's chickens before they are hatched

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.450 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.821 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)