知命 zhīmìng
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zhīmìng
verb
to know one's destiny
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '知命' 1; Pollard 2002, p. 30) -
zhīmìng
phrase
fifty years of age
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: From the saying 五十而知天命 in Book 2 為政 Wei Zheng of the 論語 “Analects of Confucius” (Guoyu '知命' 2; Mathews '知命', p. 128)
Contained in
- 乐天知命(樂天知命) to be content with what one is
- 知命安身 to know one's fate and submit to it
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷七十七 列傳第六十五: 裴政 李諤 鮑宏 高構 榮毗 陸知命 梁毗 柳彧 趙綽 杜整 Volume 77 Biographies 65: Pei Zheng, Li E, Bao Hong, Gao Gou, Rong Pi, Lu Zhiming, Lian Pi, Liu Yu, Zhao Chao, Du Zheng History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 8
- 卷66 列傳第31 李諤 鮑宏 裴政 柳莊 源師 郎茂 高構 張虔威 榮毗 陸知命 房彥謙 Volume 66 Biographies 31: Li E, Hao Hong, Pei Zheng, Liu Zhuang, Yuan Shi, Lang Mao, Gao Gou, Zhang Qianwei, Rong Pi, Lu Zhiming, Fang Yanqian Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 7
- 卷十三 權謀 Chapter 13: Tactics Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 5
- 卷十五 李王鄧來列傳 Volume 15: Biographies of Li, Wang, Deng, Lai Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 3
- 卷五十二 崔駰列傳 Volume 52: Biography of Cui Yin Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 卷八十 列傳第七十 賊臣 Volume 80 Biographies 70: Treacherous Officials History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 2
- 文公 Lord Wen The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 2
- 卷二十八 魏書二十八 王毌丘諸葛鄧鍾傳 Volume 28: Book of Wei 28 - Biographies of Wang, Guanqiu, Zhuge, Deng and Zhong Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 2
- 卷五十 列傳第四十四 文學下 Volume 50: Men of Letters 2 Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 2
- 卷三百〇七 列傳第六十六 喬維岳 王陟 張雍 董儼 魏廷式 盧琰 宋摶 凌策 楊覃 陳世卿 李若拙 陳知微 Volume 307 Biographies 66: Qiao Weiyue, Wang Zhi, Zhang Yong, Dong Yan, Wei Tingshi, Lu Yan, Song Tuan, Ling Ce, Yang Tan, Chen Shiqing, Li Ruozhuo, Chen Zhiwei History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
Collocations
- 以为知命 (以為知命) 學者以為知命焉 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十九 劉趙淳于江劉周趙列傳 Volume 39: Biographies of Liu, Zhao, Chunyu, Jiang, Liu, Zhou, Zhao — count: 9
- 陆知命 (陸知命) 陸知命 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷66 列傳第31 李諤 鮑宏 裴政 柳莊 源師 郎茂 高構 張虔威 榮毗 陸知命 房彥謙 Volume 66 Biographies 31: Li E, Hao Hong, Pei Zheng, Liu Zhuang, Yuan Shi, Lang Mao, Gao Gou, Zhang Qianwei, Rong Pi, Lu Zhiming, Fang Yanqian — count: 6
- 能知命 (能知命) 能知命十二律不失一 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One — count: 5
- 天知命 (天知命) 彼皆畏天知命 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十七 馮岑賈列傳 Volume 17: Biographies of Feng, Cen, Jia — count: 4
- 知命十二律 (知命十二律) 能知命十二律不失一 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One — count: 3
- 圣人知命 (聖人知命) 此聖人知命之術也 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十 兿文志 Volume 30: Treatise on Literature — count: 2
- 似知命 (似知命) 其似知命者 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十七 雜言 Chapter 17: Open Discussion — count: 2
- 知命任 (知命任) 非所謂知命任天道之義也 — Book of Northern Qi 北齊書, 卷八 補帝紀第八 後主 幼主 Volume 8 Annals 8: Houzhu; Youzhu — count: 2
- 知命知事 (知命知事) 夫非知命知事者 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十三 權謀 Chapter 13: Tactics — count: 2
- 子知命 (子知命) 子知命 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十 列傳第四十四 文學下 Volume 50: Men of Letters 2 — count: 2