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擦边
cā​biān

to touch the edge

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
擦边 擦邊 cā//biān
to touch the edge
to make light contact with the edge of something, such as a ball hitting the edge of a table in sports
to approach a limit
to be close to a certain age, level, or quantity; to barely reach a standard, such as being just at the cutoff point

Frequency

Written text
0.159 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)