Read Edit View history 草菅人命 cǎojiānrénmìng to disregard human life Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 草菅人命 cǎojiānrénmìng to disregard human life (idiom) to treat human life like weeds (the character 菅 jiān refers to a type of wild grass); to kill people or treat their lives with utter indifference Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.285 per million Cross-References Referenced by 菅 jiān Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
草菅人命 cǎojiānrénmìng to disregard human life (idiom) to treat human life like weeds (the character 菅 jiān refers to a type of wild grass); to kill people or treat their lives with utter indifference Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.285 per million Cross-References Referenced by 菅 jiān Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)