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吃苦头
chī​kǔ​tou

pay dearly

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
吃苦头 (吃苦頭) chī​kǔ​tou
pay dearly expression
to suffer consequences for one's actions or learn a lesson the hard way
suffer
to endure hardship, physical pain, or difficulty

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.262 per million

Sources

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