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抓差
zhuā​chāi

to press into service

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
抓差 zhuā//chāi
to press into service
to assign someone to a task or duty, especially one that is unexpected or outside their normal responsibilities; originally referred to officials forcing commoners into corvée labor

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.020 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)