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破釜沉舟
pò​fǔ​chén​zhōu

burn one's boats

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
破釜沉舟 pò​fǔ​chén​zhōu
burn one's boats idiom
to cut off one's means of retreat to show determination; to commit oneself fully to a course of action by making withdrawal impossible

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.655 per million

Sources

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