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徭役
yáo​yì

corvée

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
徭役 yáo​yì
corvée
unpaid forced labor required by the government in ancient times, such as building walls, repairing roads, or guarding borders

Frequency

Written text
0.260 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 傜役 yáo​yì

Synonym

  • 徭 yáo

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)