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糊口
hú​kǒu

to scrape a living

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
糊口 hú//kǒu
variant 餬口
to scrape a living
To earn just enough money to buy food; to scrape a meager living or get by with difficulty.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.18 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.714 per million

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 糊 hú

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)