忘食 wàng shí
wàng shí
phrase
forget to eat
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from the poem 五柳先生傳 “Gentleman of the Five Willows” by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming 365-427 in Scroll 6 of 陶淵明集 Tao Yuanming Collected Poems (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Hightower 2000, p. 494)
Contained in
- 废寝忘食(廢寢忘食) to neglect sleep and forget about food; to skip one's sleep and meals
- 发愤忘食(發憤忘食) so dedicated as to forget one's meals
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷七十五 列傳第六十五 隱逸上 Volume 75 Biographies 65: Recluses 1 History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 2
- 卷九十三 列傳第五十三 隱逸 Volume 93 Biographies 53: Hermits Book of Song 宋書 — count: 2
- Full Text Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經 — count: 2
- 卷五十九 張湯傳 Volume 59: Zhang Tang Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 卷五 本紀第五 太宗二 Volume 5 Annals 5: Taizong 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷一百八十五上 列傳第一百三十五上: 良吏上 Volume 185 Biographies 135: Virtuous Officials 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷一百七十 列傳第一百二十: 裴度 Volume 170 Biographies 120: Pei Du Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 卷七十九上 儒林列傳 Volume 79a: Biographies of Confucian Scholars 1 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 卷73 列傳第38 循吏 Volume 73 Biographies 38: Upright Officials Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 1
Collocations
- 旰忘食 (旰忘食) 日旰忘食 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 14
- 昃忘食 (昃忘食) 日昃忘食 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷八十六 列傳第五十六 張軌 Volume 86 Biographies 56: Zhang Gui — count: 7
- 瞢忘食 (瞢忘食) 瞪瞢忘食 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十七 Scroll 17 — count: 2
- 晏忘食 (晏忘食) 日晏忘食 — History of Song 宋史, 卷五 本紀第五 太宗二 Volume 5 Annals 5: Taizong 2 — count: 2
- 天子忘食 (天子忘食) 天子忘食 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《酷吏列傳》 Biographies of Cruel Officials — count: 2
- 忘食事 (忘食事) 心煩憺兮忘食事 — Songs of Chu 楚辭, 卷第八 九辯 Chapter 8: Nine Changes — count: 2