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
Texts that the word is most frequently mentioned in
| Collection | Document Title | Occurrences |
|---|---|---|
| Book of Later Han 《後漢書》 | 卷五十四 楊震列傳 Volume 54: Biography of Yang Zhen | 13 |
| Guanzi 《管子》 | 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa | 10 |
| Daode Jing 《道德經》 | Daode Jing 《道德經》 | 9 |
| Liezi 《列子》 | 卷第二 黃帝篇 Chapter 2: The Yellow Emperor | 7 |
| Book of Jin 《晉書》 | 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two | 7 |
| Wenxuan 《文選》 | 卷十一 Scroll 11 | 7 |
| Zhuangzi 《莊子》 | 《徐無鬼》 Xu Wu-gui | 7 |
| Guanzi 《管子》 | 樞言第十二 Chapter 12: Pivotal Words | 6 |
| Wenxuan 《文選》 | 卷五十一 Scroll 51 | 6 |
| Zhuangzi 《莊子》 | 《人間世》 Man in the World, Associated with other Men | 6 |
Collocations
| Simplified | Traditional | Example | Example Reference | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 殆不可 | 殆不可 | 殆不可伐也 | The Book of Rites 《禮記》 《檀弓下》 Tan Gong II | 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 | 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 | 4 |
| 阙殆 | 闕殆 | 多見闕殆 | The Analects of Confucius 《論語》 2. 《為政》 Wei Zheng | 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 | 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 | 3 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 3 |
| 齐殆 | 齊殆 | 齊殆不如 | Records of the Grand Historian 《史記》 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru | 2 |