Read Edit View history 炒鱿鱼 chǎoyóuyú fire Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 炒鱿鱼 (炒魷魚) chǎoyóuyú fire verb to dismiss someone from their job or to be terminated from employment (colloquial) 由于公司裁员，他倒霉地被炒鱿鱼了。 yóuyú gōngsī cáiyuán, tā dǎoméi de bèi chǎoyóuyú le. Due to company downsizing, he was unfortunately laid off. Frequency Movie subtitles 4.83 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 0.471 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
炒鱿鱼 (炒魷魚) chǎoyóuyú fire verb to dismiss someone from their job or to be terminated from employment (colloquial) 由于公司裁员，他倒霉地被炒鱿鱼了。 yóuyú gōngsī cáiyuán, tā dǎoméi de bèi chǎoyóuyú le. Due to company downsizing, he was unfortunately laid off. Frequency Movie subtitles 4.83 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 0.471 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)