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敲门砖
qiāo​mén​zhuān

stepping stone

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
敲门砖 (敲門磚) qiāo​mén​zhuān
stepping stone noun
a means to an end; a temporary expedient such as a qualification or person used to achieve a goal and then discarded

Frequency

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

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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