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苟延残喘
gǒu​yán​cán​chuǎn

linger

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
苟延残喘 (苟延殘喘) gǒu​yán​cán​chuǎn
linger verb
To struggle to survive for a little longer; to be at one's last gasp.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.890 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.539 per million

Sources

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