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为生
wéi​shēng

make a living

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
为生 (為生) wéi​shēng
make a living verb
to make a living

他以打鱼为生。

tā yǐ dǎ​yú wéi​shēng.

He makes a living by fishing.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
5.54 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
4.96 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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