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鹰犬
yīng​quǎn

hawks and hounds

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
鹰犬 鷹犬 yīng​quǎn
hawks and hounds
falcons and hounds used by hunters to catch prey
hired thugs
people used as tools to do someone else's dirty work; lackeys; running dogs

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.267 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)