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自焚
zì​fén

self-immolate

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
自焚 zì​fén
self-immolate idiom
to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate

抗议者在大街上引火自焚。

kàng​yì zhě zài dà​jiē shàng yǐn​huǒ zì​fén.

Protesters set themselves on fire in the street.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.64 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.38 per million

Sources

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