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风烛残年
fēng​zhú​cán​nián

declining years

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
风烛残年 (風燭殘年) fēng​zhú​cán​nián
declining years idiom
the final years of one's life, typically characterized by physical frailty or being near death

Frequency

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

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)