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黑锅
hēi​guō

scapegoat

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
黑锅 (黑鍋) hēi​guō
scapegoat noun
literally a black pot; figuratively refers to being made a scapegoat or taking the blame for someone else's mistake or crime; often used in the phrase 背黑锅 bēi​hēi​guō

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.830 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.467 per million

Sources

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)