铁蒺藜 (鐵蒺藜) tiě jílí
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tiě jílí
noun
iron wire barrier
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Used as an obstacle or a concealed trap in ancient warefare (Guoyu '鐵蒺藜' 1; Han Dian '铁蒺藜') -
tiě jílí
set phrase
iron thistles
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example, in the No. 12 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to personal conduct that is difficult to attack (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 77; Ding '鐵蒺藜'; FGDB '鐵蒺藜'; T 2003, Scroll 2)
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- 第四十八回 Chapter 48 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第七十回 Chapter 70 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
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Collocations
- 布铁蒺藜 (布鐵蒺藜) 以皮囊布鐵蒺藜於地 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷一百十六 周書7: 世宗本紀三 Volume 116 Book of Later Zhou 18: Shizong Annals 3 — count: 6