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更夫
gēng​fū

night watchman

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更夫 gēng​fū
night watchman
A person who patrolled the streets at night in former times to announce the time and watch for fire or thieves; sometimes also called 更卒 gēng​zú

Frequency

Written text
0.170 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 个 gè

Synonym

  • 更卒 gēng​zú

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)