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戏言
xì​yán

break promise

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
戏言 (戲言) xì​yán
break promise noun
to go back on one's words or treat a commitment as a joke
joke noun
words spoken in jest; a joking matter

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.786 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)