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收之桑榆
shōu​zhī​sāng​yú

to make up for an earlier loss

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
收之桑榆 shōu​zhī​sāng​yú
to make up for an earlier loss
to lose at first but gain in the end; to compensate later for one's earlier failures or losses

Frequency

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0.128 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)