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充数
chōng​shù

to make up the number

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
充数 充數 chōng//shù
to make up the number
To fill a quota or count by using people or things that do not necessarily meet the standard or requirements; to serve as a stopgap.

Frequency

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

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 抵数 dǐ​shù

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)