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méi​chū​xi

good-for-nothing

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
没出息 沒出息 méi//chū​xi
good-for-nothing
lacking good prospects or ambition; useless or feckless
shame on you
used as an exclamation to scold someone (often a child) for lacking ambition or behaving poorly

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.16 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.06 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)