大命 dàmìng
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dàmìng
noun
the Mandate of Heaven
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Philosophy
Notes: Same as 天命 (Chan 1963, p. 276; Guoyu '大命' 1) -
dàmìng
phrase
a command from the ruler
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 君命 (Guoyu '大命' 2) -
dàmìng
noun
lifespan
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 寿命 (Guoyu '大命' 3) -
dàmìng
noun
a great matter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 大事 (Guoyu '大命' 4)
Contained in
- 人始生有大命 from the start of their lives, people have a greater destiny
- 违大命(違大命) to violate the Mandate of Heaven
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷六十 Scroll 60 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷三 帝紀第三 世祖武帝 Volume 3 Annals 3: Emperor Wu Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 3
- 卷九十七下 外戚傳 Volume 97a: The Empresses and Imperial Affines 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
- 卷四 帝紀第四 文宣帝 Volume 4 Annals 4: Emperor Wenxuan Book of Northern Qi 北齊書 — count: 2
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 2
- 周書 君奭 Zhou Shu - Prince Shi Book of Documents 尚書 — count: 2
- 揚權第八 Chapter 8: Wielding Power Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 2
- Scroll 4 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 2
- 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: 2
- 卷三十七 Scroll 37 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
Collocations
- 集大命 (集大命) 用集大命 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 太甲上 Shang Shu - Tai Jia I — count: 21
- 大命近 (大命近) 大命近止 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧雲漢 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yun Han — count: 3
- 国有大命 (國有大命) 國有大命 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
- 大命文王 (大命文王) 天乃大命文王 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 康誥 Zhou Shu - Announcement to the Prince of Kang — count: 2
- 干大命 (乾大命) 使干大命 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 2
- 归大命 (歸大命) 謹歸大命 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十五 劉焉袁術吕布列傳 Volume 75: Biographies of Liu Yan, Yuan Shu, Lü Bu — count: 2
- 降大命 (降大命) 是夫降大命以達吾德也 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 8 — count: 2
- 受大命 (受大命) 予害敢不於身撫祖宗之所受大命 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十四 翟方進傳 Volume 84: Zhai Fangjin — count: 2
- 大命倾 (大命傾) 大命傾而不寤 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十五 谷永杜鄴傳 Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye — count: 2
- 集成大命 (集成大命) 上集成大命 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十九 志第九 禮上 Volume 19 Treatises 9: Rites Part One — count: 2