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节哀
jié'āi

restrain one's grief

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
节哀 節哀 jié//āi
restrain one's grief
To hold back or control one's sorrow, typically used as a literary expression to comfort the bereaved; often used in the phrase 节哀顺变 jié'āi​shùn​biàn

Frequency

Movie subtitles
4.71 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
0.651 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)