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鸠占鹊巢
jiū​zhàn​què​cháo

to usurp

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
鸠占鹊巢 鳩占鵲巢 jiū​zhàn​què​cháo
variant 鳩佔鵲巢
to usurp
To seize what belongs to someone else; literally "the turtledove takes over the magpie's nest."

Frequency

Written text
0.064 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 鹊巢鸠占 què​cháo​jiū​zhàn
  • 鹊巢鸠占 què​cháo​jiū​zhàn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)