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秃笔
tū​bǐ

worn-out writing brush

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
秃笔 禿筆 tū​bǐ
worn-out writing brush
a writing brush that has lost its hair or has been worn down from use
poor writing ability
one's own poor writing or lack of literary skill, usually used as a humble expression to describe one's own work

Frequency

Written text
0.057 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 支 zhī

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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