殆 dài
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adjective
dangerous / perilous
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
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adverb
nearly / maybe
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense, 殆 has the effect of lessening the certainty of an assertion in Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 199, p. 124).
Contained in
- 殆尽(殆盡) to be nearly exhausted / to have practically nothing left
- 危殆 grave danger / in jeopardy / in a critical condition
- 丧失殆尽(喪失殆盡) to be used up / to be exhausted
- 车殆马烦(車殆馬煩) an exhausting journey
- 百战不殆(百戰不殆) to come unscathed through a hundred battles
- 知己知彼，百战不殆(知己知彼，百戰不殆) know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated
- 知彼知己，百战不殆(知彼知己，百戰不殆) knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles
- 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆(學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆) To learn without thinking is confusing, to think without learning is dangerous (Confucius)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十四 楊震列傳 Volume 54: Biography of Yang Zhen Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 13
- 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa Guanzi 管子 — count: 10
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 9
- 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
- 卷第二 黃帝篇 Chapter 2: The Yellow Emperor Liezi 列子 — count: 7
- 《徐無鬼》 Xu Wu-gui Zhuangzi 莊子 — count: 7
- 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 7
- 卷五十一 Scroll 51 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷三百十八 列傳第七十七 張方平 王拱辰 張昪 趙槩 胡宿 Volume 318 Biographies 77: Zhang Fangping, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Bian, Zhao Gai, Hu Su History of Song 宋史 — count: 6
- 卷二十七 韓二 Chapter 27: Han II Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 6
Collocations
- 殆不可 (殆不可) 殆不可伐也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓下》 Tan Gong II — count: 6
- 殆可 (殆可) 子殆可與敖為友乎 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 4
- 兵殆 (兵殆) 然而兵殆于垂沙 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五 兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 4
- 殆不见 (殆不見) 殆不見其氣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 3
- 殆天 (殆天) 沛公殆天授 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《留侯世家》 House of Marquis of Liu — count: 3
- 曰殆 (曰殆) 亦曰殆哉 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 秦誓 Zhou Shu - Speech of the Marquis of Qin — count: 3
- 疑殆 (疑殆) 拙者疑殆 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《扁鵲倉公列傳》 Biographies of Bian Que and the Duke of Cang — count: 3
- 阙殆 (闕殆) 多見闕殆 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 2. 《為政》 Wei Zheng — count: 3
- 殆不如 (殆不如) 殆不如父重 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十九 修文 Chapter 19: Cultivation and Education — count: 3
- 往殆 (往殆) 故相與往殆乎晉也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 2