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喝西北风
hē​xī​běi​fēng

to go hungry

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
喝西北风 喝西北風 hē//xī​běi​fēng
to go hungry
literally "to drink the northwest wind"; to be too poor to buy food or have nothing to eat; to suffer from cold and hunger

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.418 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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