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后尘
hòu​chén

someone's footsteps

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
后尘 後塵 hòu​chén
someone's footsteps
literary word for the dust raised by moving people or vehicles; used to describe following in someone's footsteps or trailing in their wake

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.920 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.11 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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