天命 tiānmìng
tiānmìng
proper noun
tianming; Mandate of Heaven
Domain: History 历史
, Subdomain: Confucianism
Notes: A concept in Confucian thought that legitimizes the ruler and the taking over of one dynasty by another (Yao 2000, p. 144)
Contained in
- 天命真主 the mandate of heaven is the true ruler
- 天命成败(天命成敗) success and failure are determined by the mandate of heaven
- 五十而知天命 at fifty, I understood the mandate of heaven
- 天命有归(天命有歸) the mandate of heaven has an ending
- 听天命(聽天命) obey the mandate of heaven
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷二 魏書二 文帝紀 Volume 2: Book of Wei 2 - Annals of Emperor Wen Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 33
- 卷二十二 志第十二 樂四 Volume 22 Treatises 12: Music 4 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 9
- 卷四十八 Scroll 48 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
- 卷二十 志第十 樂二 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Music 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 7
- 卷二十七 志第十七 符瑞上 Volume 27 Treatises 17: Auspicious Signs 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 6
- 卷九十九上 王莽傳 Volume 99a: Wang Mang 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 6
- 《季氏第十六》 Commentary on Ji Shi XVI Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 6
- 卷二十三 志第十三 樂下 Volume 23 Treatises 13: Music Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6
- 卷六十三 志第三十九 樂三 Volume 63 Treatises 39: Music 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 6
- 卷一 魏書一 武帝紀 Volume 1: Book of Wei 1 - Annals of Emperor Wu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 6
Collocations
- 知天命 (知天命) 矧曰其有能格知天命 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 大誥 Zhou Shu - Great Announcement — count: 13
- 承天命 (承天命) 單于宜承天命 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十四下 匈奴傳 Volume 94b: Traditions of the Xiongnu 2 — count: 13
- 畏天命 (畏天命) 畏天命 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 16. 《季氏》 Ji Shi — count: 13
- 受天命 (受天命) 復受天命 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧下武 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Xia Wu — count: 6
- 天命不可 (天命不可) 臣等以爲天命不可稽 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二 魏書二 文帝紀 Volume 2: Book of Wei 2 - Annals of Emperor Wen — count: 5
- 天命靡 (天命靡) 天命靡常 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧文王 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Wen Wang — count: 5
- 不知天命 (不知天命) 爾亦不知天命不易 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 大誥 Zhou Shu - Great Announcement — count: 5
- 天命去 (天命去) 天命去就庶幾可復 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十五 谷永杜鄴傳 Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye — count: 4
- 待天命 (待天命) 以待天命 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 未知天命 (未知天命) 爾未知天命 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《殷本紀》 Annals of Yin — count: 4