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挽歌
wǎn​gē

dirge; elegy

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
挽歌 wǎn​gē
variant 輓歌
dirge; elegy
a song sung to mourn the deceased (originally by those pulling a hearse); (figurative) a lament for the decline or disappearance of something

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.329 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 首 shǒu

Antonym

  • 颂歌 sòng​gē

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)