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扼腕
è​wàn

to wring one's hands

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
扼腕 è//wàn
to wring one's hands
To grip one's wrist with the other hand, expressing strong emotions such as regret, anger, or excitement
to sigh with regret
To feel deep regret or pity

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.563 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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