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苟延残喘
gǒu​yán​cán​chuǎn

to linger on

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
苟延残喘 苟延殘喘 gǒu​yán​cán​chuǎn
to linger on
to struggle on while at death's door; to barely manage to stay alive or keep a failing situation going

Frequency

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

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)