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花瓜
huā​guā

pickled cucumber

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
花瓜 huā​guā
pickled cucumber
pickled cucumber; specifically a small pickled cucumber or gherkin
beaten or scolded severely
(figurative) metaphor for being beaten until bleeding and bruised, or being scolded mercilessly

Frequency

Written text
0.015 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 个 gè

Synonym

  • 花胡瓜 huā​hú​guā

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)