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 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
- 卷六十一 左周黃列傳 Volume 61: Biographies of Zuo, Zhou, Huang 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
- 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
- 卷五十二 崔駰列傳 Volume 52: Biography of Cui Yin Book of Later Han 後漢書 — 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
- 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
- 逾知命 (逾知命) 已逾知命 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷九十三 列傳第五十三 隱逸 Volume 93 Biographies 53: Hermits — count: 2
- 知命乐天 (知命樂天) 知命樂天 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百五十八 列傳第二百十七 隱逸中 王樵 張愈 黃晞 周啟明 代淵 陳烈 孫侔 劉易 姜潛 連庶 章詧 俞汝尚 陽孝本 鄧考甫 宇文之邵 吳瑛 松江漁翁 杜生 順昌山人 南安翁 張𡒊 Volume 458 Biographies 217: Recluses 2 - Wang Qiao, Zhang Yu, Huang Xi, Zhou Qiming, Dai Yuan, Chen Lie, Sun Mou, Liu Yi, Jiang Qian, Lian Shu, Zhang Cha, Yu Rushang, Yang Xiaoben, Deng Kaofu, Yuwen Zhishao, Wu Ying, Songjiang Yuweng, Du Sheng, Shunchang Shanren, Nan Anweng, Zhang Yu — 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