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赎金
shú​jīn

ransom

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
赎金 贖金 shú​jīn
ransom noun
money paid to redeem a person from captivity or to recover pawned items

我叫他不要付赎金。

wǒ jiào tā bù​yào fù shú​jīn.

I told him not to pay the ransom.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
7.84 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
1.47 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 赎款 shú​kuǎn

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)