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吴市吹箫
wú​shì​chuī​xiāo

begging

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
吴市吹箫 (吳市吹簫) wú​shì​chuī​xiāo
begging
to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's exile and humiliation in the Records of the Grand Historian)

Frequency

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0.003 per million

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 吹箫乞食 chuī​xiāo​qǐ​shí

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Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)