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请缨
qǐng​yīng

to volunteer

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
请缨 請纓 qǐng​yīng
to volunteer
To volunteer for military service or request a difficult assignment; literally to "request a long tassel" based on a historical account of a diplomat who promised to capture a foreign king.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.300 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.672 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)