不动 (不動) bùdòng
bùdòng
phrase
to not move
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, the idiom 按兵不动 'hold back the troops' (Guoyu '按兵不動')
Contained in
- 切不动(切不動) unable to be cut
- 扯不动(扯不動) not able to be torn
- 不动产(不動產) fixed asset; real estate; immovables
- 闻风不动(聞風不動) not move on hearing news; to not respond
- 雷打不动(雷打不動) not shaken by thunder; the arrangements are unalterable; to adhere rigidly to regulations
- 案兵不动(案兵不動) to hold back the troops and stay put
- 文风不动(文風不動) absolutely still; not the slightest change
- 不动声色(不動聲色) not change voice or facial expression; not a word or movement; remaining calm and collected; not batting an eyelid
- 不动点定理(不動點定理) fixed point theorem (math.)
- 纹丝不动(紋絲不動) to not move a single jot
- 安静不动(安靜不動) resting; not moving
- 不动点(不動點) fixed point (of a map) (math.)
- 动不动(動不動) apt to happen (usually of something undesirable); frequently; happening easily (e.g. accident or illness)
- 兵马不动，粮草先行(兵馬不動，糧草先行) before troops and horses proceed, first prepare grain and fodder
- 君子动口不动手(君子動口不動手) a gentleman uses his mouth and not his fist
- 静坐不动(靜坐不動) to sit still and do nothing; to sit tight
- 不动如山(不動如山) be immovable, like a mountain
- 不动而变(不動而變) to transform without acting
- 按兵不动(按兵不動) to hold back the troops and stay put
- 不动摇(不動搖) unmoved
- 纹风不动(紋風不動) absolutely still; not the slightest change
- 动不动就生气(動不動就生氣) to be quick to take offence; to have a short fuse
- 一动不动(一動不動) motionless
- 原封不动(原封不動) sticking unmoving to the original; not an iota changed; untouched
- 拿不动(拿不動) to be unable to carry; to be unable to lift
- 非利不动(非利不動) do not move unless it is to your advantage
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《公孫丑章句上》 Commentary on Gong Sun Chou I Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 17
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
- 第八回 Chapter 8 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 卷十五 兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 5
- 卷19 志第14 天文上 Volume 19 Treatises 14: Astronomy 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 5
- 公孫丑上 Gong Sun Chou I Mencius 孟子 — count: 5
- 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4
- 第五十六回 Chapter 56 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4
- 第五十九回 Chapter 59 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
- 戒第二十六 Chapter 26: Jie Di Guanzi 管子 — count: 4
Collocations
- 非礼不动 (非禮不動) 非禮不動 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean — count: 11
- 卧不动 (臥不動) 漢堅臥不動 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十八 吳蓋陳臧列傳 Volume 18: Biographies of Wu, Gai, Chen, Zang — count: 7
- 不动心 (不動心) 我四十不動心 — Mencius 孟子, 公孫丑上 Gong Sun Chou I — count: 6
- 坚守不动 (堅守不動) 堅守不動 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十一 任李萬邳劉耿列傳 Volume 21: Biographies of Ren, Li, Wan, Pi, Liu, Geng — count: 5
- 志不动 (誌不動) 荊佽非兩蛟夾繞其船而志不動 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十三 氾論訓 Chapter 13: Overflowing Discussions — count: 3
- 见利不动 (見利不動) 見利不動 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十一 左周黃列傳 Volume 61: Biographies of Zuo, Zhou, Huang — count: 3
- 革不动 (革不動) 兵革不動 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八 宣帝紀 Volume 8: Annals of Emperor Xuan — count: 3
- 亮不动 (亮不動) 亮不動 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一 帝紀第一 高祖宣帝 Volume 1 Annals 1: Emperor Xuan — count: 2
- 立不动 (立不動) 立不動 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十六 趙尹韓張兩王傳 Volume 76: Zhao, Yin, Han, Zhang and two Wangs — count: 2
- 虑不动 (慮不動) 慮不動於耳目 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — count: 2