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蚀本
shí​běn

to lose capital

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
蚀本 蝕本 shí//běn
to lose capital
To lose money in business; to suffer a loss of one's initial investment.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.123 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 亏本 kuī​běn
  • 赔本 péi​běn
  • 亏蚀 kuī​shí

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)