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以泪洗面
yǐ​lèi​xǐ​miàn

to bathe one's face in tears

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
以泪洗面 以淚洗面 yǐ​lèi​xǐ​miàn
to bathe one's face in tears
to be overwhelmed by grief or sadness; literally "to wash one's face with tears"

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.450 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.507 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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