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吃皇粮
chī​huáng​liáng

to live on government wages

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
吃皇粮 吃皇糧 chī//huáng​liáng
to live on government wages
To be a government employee; to work for the civil service, the military, or an institution funded by the state.

Frequency

Written text
0.169 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)