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惨不忍睹
cǎn​bù​rěn​dǔ

too horrible to look at

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
惨不忍睹 慘不忍睹 cǎn​bù​rěn​dǔ
too horrible to look at
miserable; horrendous; atrocious. Literally, so tragic that one cannot bear to see it.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.64 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.53 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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