玩命 wánmìng to risk one's life Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 玩命 wán//mìng to risk one's life To disregard one's personal safety or treat one's life as a joke, such as by taking extreme risks. to work desperately To put all of one's energy and effort into a task as if one's life depended on it; to work with desperate urgency. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.13 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.73 per million Cross-References Erhua variant of 玩儿命 wánrmìng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
玩命 wán//mìng to risk one's life To disregard one's personal safety or treat one's life as a joke, such as by taking extreme risks. to work desperately To put all of one's energy and effort into a task as if one's life depended on it; to work with desperate urgency. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.13 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.73 per million Cross-References Erhua variant of 玩儿命 wánrmìng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)