kāi​táng

to hold court

开堂 開堂 kāi//táng
to hold court
to open a law court or hold a court session
to set up a mourning hall
to set up a hall for mourning the dead
to establish a secret society
to establish an organization or a new branch of a secret society or criminal gang; also known as 开山 kāi​shān
to self-harm for gain
to deliberately injure oneself in order to achieve a specific goal, such as to extort money or gain sympathy, often associated with beggars or gangsters

Frequency

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

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