千刀万剐 qiāndāowànguǎ to hack to pieces Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 千刀万剐 千刀萬剮 qiāndāowànguǎ to hack to pieces to hack to pieces; originally referring to the ancient punishment of lingchi or 'death by a thousand cuts', this idiom is now mostly used as a curse for someone who has committed a terrible crime Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.362 per million Cross-References Same as 凌迟 língchí Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
千刀万剐 千刀萬剮 qiāndāowànguǎ to hack to pieces to hack to pieces; originally referring to the ancient punishment of lingchi or 'death by a thousand cuts', this idiom is now mostly used as a curse for someone who has committed a terrible crime Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.362 per million Cross-References Same as 凌迟 língchí Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
