风烛残年 fēngzhúcánnián declining years Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 风烛残年 風燭殘年 fēngzhúcánnián declining years one's late years in life; to have one foot in the grave; an idiom describing old age that is weak and frail, like a candle flickering in the wind Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.273 per million Cross-References Synonym 风中残烛 fēngzhōngcánzhú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
风烛残年 風燭殘年 fēngzhúcánnián declining years one's late years in life; to have one foot in the grave; an idiom describing old age that is weak and frail, like a candle flickering in the wind Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.273 per million Cross-References Synonym 风中残烛 fēngzhōngcánzhú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
