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檄文
xí​wén

call to arms

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
檄文 xí​wén
call to arms
(literary) an official government proclamation or call to arms used in ancient times for recruitment, public announcements, or denouncing an enemy; now used figuratively for a public denunciation or a sharp written critique

Frequency

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0.376 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 篇 piān

Same as

  • 檄书 xí​shū
  • 檄 xí

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)