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响马
xiǎng​mǎ

mounted bandits

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
响马 響馬 xiǎng​mǎ
mounted bandits
(literary) Mounted highwaymen or bandits. The term refers to robbers in northern China who would fire a whistling arrow as a signal before attacking travelers.

Frequency

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0.196 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)