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屏息
bǐng​xī

to hold one's breath

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
屏息 bǐng​xī
to hold one's breath
To hold one's breath; to stop breathing or making a sound, often out of concentration, awe, or fear; to block out external influences and focus.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.656 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 屏气 bǐng​qì

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)