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断弦
duàn​xián

broken string

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
断弦 (斷弦) duàn​xián
broken string verb
literally, a broken string on a musical instrument
widowed verb
to lose one's wife; the death of a spouse (derived from the metaphor of the qin and se instruments)

Frequency

Written text
0.147 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)