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自焚
zì​fén

to burn oneself

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
自焚 zì​fén
to burn oneself
to burn oneself to death; to commit suicide by fire; to self-immolate
to bring about one's own destruction
to cause one's own downfall through one's own actions; to incinerate oneself metaphorically

Frequency

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

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)