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护短
hù​duǎn

to shield faults

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
护短 護短 hù//duǎn
to shield faults
To shield a shortcoming or mistake; to protect or side with someone (often a relative, a friend, or oneself) even when they are in the wrong.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.300 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.484 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 庇短 bì​duǎn

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)