Read Edit View history 债台高筑 zhàitáigāozhù to be mired in debt Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 债台高筑 債臺高築 zhàitáigāozhù to be mired in debt to be heavily in debt; to be debt-ridden; literally to build a high platform of debt, referencing a king from the Warring States period who hid on a high platform to avoid his creditors Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.511 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
债台高筑 債臺高築 zhàitáigāozhù to be mired in debt to be heavily in debt; to be debt-ridden; literally to build a high platform of debt, referencing a king from the Warring States period who hid on a high platform to avoid his creditors Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.511 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)