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要饭
yào​fàn

to beg

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
要饭 要飯 yào//fàn
to beg
To beg for food or money.
to ask for a meal
To request that a meal be served, as a customer in a restaurant.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.860 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.34 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 讨饭 tǎo​fàn
  • 乞讨 qǐ​tǎo

Same as

  • 乞食 qǐ​shí

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)