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刻舟求剑
kè​zhōu​qiú​jiàn HSK7

inflexibility

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
刻舟求剑 (刻舟求劍) kè​zhōu​qiú​jiàn
inflexibility idiom
lit. marking a boat to find a lost sword; fig. taking an action that is pointless due to changed circumstances

Frequency

Written text
0.093 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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