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起早摸黑
qǐ​zǎo​mō​hēi

to work from dawn to dusk

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
起早摸黑 qǐ​zǎo​mō​hēi
to work from dawn to dusk
To be very industrious; rising early and going to bed late to work.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.347 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 起早贪黑 qǐ​zǎo​tān​hēi

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)