Read Edit View history 破釜沉舟 pòfǔchénzhōu burn one's boats Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 破釜沉舟 pòfǔchénzhōu burn one's boats idiom to cut off one's means of retreat to show determination; to commit oneself fully to a course of action by making withdrawal impossible Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.655 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
破釜沉舟 pòfǔchénzhōu burn one's boats idiom to cut off one's means of retreat to show determination; to commit oneself fully to a course of action by making withdrawal impossible Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.655 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)