草菅人命 cǎojiānrénmìng to disregard human life Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 草菅人命 cǎojiānrénmìng to disregard human life (idiom) to treat human life like weeds (the character 菅 jiān refers to a type of wild grass); to kill people or treat their lives with utter indifference Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.285 per million Cross-References Referenced by 菅 jiān Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
草菅人命 cǎojiānrénmìng to disregard human life (idiom) to treat human life like weeds (the character 菅 jiān refers to a type of wild grass); to kill people or treat their lives with utter indifference Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.285 per million Cross-References Referenced by 菅 jiān Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)