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马革裹尸
mǎ​gé​guǒ​shī

to die in battle

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
马革裹尸 馬革裹屍 mǎ​gé​guǒ​shī
to die in battle
to be buried in a horse hide; refers to a soldier's dedication to give one's life on the battlefield rather than dying in bed

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.098 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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