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凌迟
líng​chí

lingering death

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
凌迟 (凌遲) líng​chí
lingering death verb
An ancient form of capital punishment in China involving the slow slicing of the body, also known as the death of a thousand cuts.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.210 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.551 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)