Read Edit View history 名存实亡 míngcúnshíwáng to exist in name only Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 名存实亡 名存實亡 míngcúnshíwáng to exist in name only The name remains but the reality is gone; a situation where something exists officially or formally but has no actual power or substance in reality. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.658 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
名存实亡 名存實亡 míngcúnshíwáng to exist in name only The name remains but the reality is gone; a situation where something exists officially or formally but has no actual power or substance in reality. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.658 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)