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造孽
zào​niè

to do evil

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
造孽 zào//niè
to do evil
to do evil or commit a sin; originally a Buddhist term referring to bad deeds that will result in retribution

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.00 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 造业 zào​yè

Synonym

  • 造罪 zào​zuì

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)