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招摇
zhāo​yáo

to show off

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
招摇 招搖 zhāo​yáo
to show off
to act ostentatiously to attract attention; to brag or swagger; to show off
to sway
to rock back and forth; to shake or sway in the wind
Zhaoyao
(literary) the star Gamma Boötis; (by extension) the Big Dipper

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.49 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.18 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)