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苦口婆心
kǔ​kǒu​pó​xīn

earnest persuasion

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
苦口婆心 kǔ​kǒu​pó​xīn
earnest persuasion idiom
earnest and well-meaning advice; to persuade patiently

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.959 per million

Sources

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