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黃連
huáng​lián

Chinese goldthread

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
黄连 黃連 huáng​lián
Chinese goldthread
(Coptis chinensis) A perennial herb with bitter rhizomes used in traditional medicine; often used metaphorically to represent a bitter or difficult life.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.34 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 棵 kē

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)