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差役
chāi​yì

corvée

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
差役 chāi​yì
corvée
(literary) forced, unpaid labor required of commoners by the government or a feudal lord
bailiff
(literary) a low-level runner or attendant in a feudal yamen; more generally, any person sent to perform a task

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.382 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)