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西北风
xī​běi​fēng

northwest wind

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
西北风 西北風 xī​běi​fēng
northwest wind
a wind blowing from the northwest, often used to refer to a cold winter wind
to have nothing to eat
literally to feed on the northwest wind; a metaphor for having no food and going hungry

Frequency

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

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)