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朝不保夕
zhāo​bù​bǎo​xī

precarious

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
朝不保夕 zhāo​bù​bǎo​xī
precarious
to be in a precarious state; literally meaning that at dawn one is not sure of lasting until the evening, used to describe a life of extreme uncertainty or an imminent crisis

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.236 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)