炼狱 liànyù purgatory Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 炼狱 煉獄 liànyù purgatory According to Catholic or Orthodox belief, a place where the souls of the dead suffer temporarily to pay for their sins before entering heaven. living hell A place or situation of intense suffering, hardship, or severe trial. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.62 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.953 per million Cross-References Classifier 座 zuò Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
炼狱 煉獄 liànyù purgatory According to Catholic or Orthodox belief, a place where the souls of the dead suffer temporarily to pay for their sins before entering heaven. living hell A place or situation of intense suffering, hardship, or severe trial. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.62 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.953 per million Cross-References Classifier 座 zuò Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)