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削发
xuē​fà

to become a monk or nun

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
削发 削髮 xuē//fà
to become a monk or nun
To shave one's head as a ritual of entering a monastic order; to take the tonsure.

Frequency

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

Cross-References

Same as

  • 落发 luò​fà

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)