吐故纳新 tǔgùnàxīn to practice breathing exercises Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 吐故纳新 吐故納新 tǔgùnàxīn to practice breathing exercises (of Daoism) a technique for longevity involving exhaling stale air and inhaling fresh air to expel disease to bring in the new (idiom) to get rid of the old and replace it with the new; to renovate or rejuvenate Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.224 per million Cross-References See 庄子 zhuāngzǐReferenced by 纳新 nàxīn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
吐故纳新 吐故納新 tǔgùnàxīn to practice breathing exercises (of Daoism) a technique for longevity involving exhaling stale air and inhaling fresh air to expel disease to bring in the new (idiom) to get rid of the old and replace it with the new; to renovate or rejuvenate Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.224 per million Cross-References See 庄子 zhuāngzǐReferenced by 纳新 nàxīn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)