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贞烈
zhēn​liè

chaste and firm

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
贞烈 貞烈 zhēn​liè
chaste and firm
virtuous and resolute; (of a woman) traditionally describing one who would rather die than lose her chastity
virtuous widow
person (usually a woman) ready to die to preserve their chastity or honor

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.058 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)