Read Edit View history 兴师动众 xīngshīdòngzhòng to muster large forces Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 兴师动众 興師動眾 xīngshīdòngzhòng to muster large forces to mobilize a massive army for a military campaign to involve many people to drag in a great number of people to perform a task (often implying the effort is excessive or unnecessary) Frequency Movie subtitles 0.390 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.467 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
兴师动众 興師動眾 xīngshīdòngzhòng to muster large forces to mobilize a massive army for a military campaign to involve many people to drag in a great number of people to perform a task (often implying the effort is excessive or unnecessary) Frequency Movie subtitles 0.390 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.467 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)