字 Chinese Character Wiki Wiki
Log in
  • Home
  • Search
  • Lists
  • Recent Changes
  • My Edits
  • Character Builder
Preferences
Theme
Characters
Phonetic
  • Dong Chinese
Read Edit View history
倒悬
dào​xuán

dire straits

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
倒悬 (倒懸) dào​xuán
dire straits verb
a figurative state of extreme hardship, misery, or critical danger
hang upside down verb
to hang or be suspended vertically with the top or head downward

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.177 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
CC BY-SA 4.0 Data licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0