头白齿落 (頭白齒落) tóu bái chǐ luò
tóu bái chǐ luò
phrase
hair turns grey and teeth fall out
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Chapter 13 重政 The Importance of Governance in Scroll 5 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 173)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五 滅國上第七 滅國下第八 隨本消息第九 盟會要第十 正貫第十一 十指第十二 重政第十三 Scroll 5 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 1