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瓮中之鳖
wèng​zhōng​zhī​biē

trapped person or animal

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
瓮中之鳖 甕中之鱉 wèng​zhōng​zhī​biē
trapped person or animal
Literally "a turtle in a jar"; describes someone or something that is completely trapped and has no way to escape

Frequency

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

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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