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吃本
chī​běn

to lose capital

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
吃本 chī//běn
to lose capital
To lose money in business; to fail to regain one's initial investment.

Frequency

Written text
0.048 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 赔本 péi​běn
  • 亏本 kuī​běn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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