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痛哭
tòng​kū

wail

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
痛哭 tòng​kū
wail verb
to cry bitterly

听到这个坏消息,他痛哭起来。

tīng​dào zhè​gè huài xiāo​xi, tā tòng​kū qi​lai.

Upon hearing the bad news, he wept bitterly.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.70 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.31 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)