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丧钟
sāng​zhōng

death knell

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
丧钟 喪鐘 sāng​zhōng
death knell
funeral bell; a bell rung to signal a person's death or during a funeral, often used to symbolize the end or downfall of something

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.265 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)