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三长两短
sān​cháng​liǎng​duǎn

unexpected misfortune

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
三长两短 三長兩短 sān​cháng​liǎng​duǎn
unexpected misfortune
Unexpected misfortune or accident; often used as a polite or indirect way to refer to someone's death.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.25 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.409 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)