铜臭 tóngxiù stink of money Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 铜臭 銅臭 tóngxiù stink of money The smell of copper coins; used to mock someone's excessive obsession with wealth or a profits-before-everything mentality stench of corruption Used to mock those who purchase government offices with money, referencing the story of Cui Lie in the Later Han dynasty Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.250 per million Cross-References See 崔烈铜臭 cuīliètóngxiù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
铜臭 銅臭 tóngxiù stink of money The smell of copper coins; used to mock someone's excessive obsession with wealth or a profits-before-everything mentality stench of corruption Used to mock those who purchase government offices with money, referencing the story of Cui Lie in the Later Han dynasty Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.250 per million Cross-References See 崔烈铜臭 cuīliètóngxiù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
