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半辈子
bàn​bèi​zi

half a lifetime

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
半辈子 (半輩子) bàn​bèi​zi
half a lifetime numeral
half of a lifetime

他在北京住了半辈子。

tā zài Běi​jīng zhù le bàn​bèi​zi.

He has lived in Beijing for half his life.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
6.32 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
2.01 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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