敲门砖 qiāoménzhuān stepping stone Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 敲门砖 (敲門磚) qiāoménzhuān stepping stone noun a means to an end; a temporary expedient such as a qualification or person used to achieve a goal and then discarded Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.470 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
敲门砖 (敲門磚) qiāoménzhuān stepping stone noun a means to an end; a temporary expedient such as a qualification or person used to achieve a goal and then discarded Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.470 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
