虎穴 hǔxué

hǔxué noun a tiger's den
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '虎穴')

Contained in

• 不入虎穴，焉得虎子 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair?

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷第六 書證 Scroll 6: Writing The Family Instructions of Master Yan 顏氏家訓 — count: 2
• 卷九十 酷吏傳 Volume 90: Cruel Officials Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
• 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 2
• 卷五十四 吳書九 周瑜魯肅呂蒙傳 Volume 54: Book of Wu 9 - Biographies of Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
• 第六十回 Chapter 60 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
• 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 第六十回 Chapter 60 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 卷四十七 班梁列傳 Volume 47: Biographies of Ban, Liang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
• 卷43 列傳第35 李延孫 韋祐 韓雄 陳忻 魏玄 Volume 43 Biographies 35: Li Yansun; Wei You; Han Xiong; Chen Xin; Wei Xuan Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 1
• 第十三回 Chapter 13 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1

Collocations

• 入虎穴 (入虎穴) 不入虎穴 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十七 班梁列傳 Volume 47: Biographies of Ban, Liang — count: 6
• 探虎穴 (探虎穴) 旦不探虎穴 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷五十四 吳書九 周瑜魯肅呂蒙傳 Volume 54: Book of Wu 9 - Biographies of Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng — count: 4
• 虎穴龙潭 (虎穴龍潭) 來虎穴龍潭 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十一回 Chapter 41 — count: 3
• 乳虎穴 (乳虎穴) 宁见乳虎穴 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十七 酷吏列傳 Volume 77: Biographies of Cruel Officials — count: 2