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囊中羞涩
náng​zhōng​xiū​sè

to be short of money

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
囊中羞涩 囊中羞澀 náng​zhōng​xiū​sè
to be short of money
to be embarrassingly short of money; a polite or humorous way to say one's pockets are empty

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.678 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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