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天堑
tiān​qiàn

natural moat

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
天堑 天塹 tiān​qiàn
natural moat
A naturally formed barrier or deep trench that is difficult to cross; often specifically used to describe the Yangtze River 长江 cháng​jiāng as a strategic defense.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.258 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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