殉 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xùn

die for cause

殉 xùn

to die for noun: (bound form) to sacrifice one's life for a cause, ideal, or duty

to be buried with the dead: (bound form) to be buried alive with the dead or used as a burial sacrifice

to devote oneself to: (bound form) to obsessively pursue or be devoted to a goal, such as fame or wealth

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Cross-References

Same as

徇 xùn
侚 xùn

Has variant

徇 xùn

Frequency

Character

Written text: 3,303rd most common 6.77 per million
Movie subtitles: 3,120th most common 2.86 per million appears in 2% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text: 0.878 per million

Details

Strokes: 10
Unicode: U+6B89

Sources

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)