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知了
zhī​liǎo

cicada

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
知了 zhī​liǎo
cicada
cicada; named because its call sounds like the word "zhī liǎo"

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.882 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 蝉 chán

Variant of

  • 蜘蟟 zhī​liáo

Same as

  • 蚱蝉 zhà​chán

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)