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装死
zhuāng​sǐ

to play dead

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
装死 裝死 zhuāng//sǐ
to play dead
To pretend to be dead; to feign death.
to play possum
To feign ignorance or stay silent in order to avoid a confrontation or a task; to play dumb

Frequency

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0.893 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 佯死 yáng​sǐ
  • 诈死 zhà​sǐ

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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