收兵 shōubīng to withdraw troops Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 收兵 shōu//bīng to withdraw troops To retreat or call off a battle; to recall troops after a fight to finish work (metaphorical) To wind up an activity or call it a day; often used in the negative to mean a task is not yet over to recruit soldiers (literary) To enlist or gather troops; often seen in the phrase 收兵买马 shōubīngmǎimǎ Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.475 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
收兵 shōu//bīng to withdraw troops To retreat or call off a battle; to recall troops after a fight to finish work (metaphorical) To wind up an activity or call it a day; often used in the negative to mean a task is not yet over to recruit soldiers (literary) To enlist or gather troops; often seen in the phrase 收兵买马 shōubīngmǎimǎ Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.475 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
