平生 píngshēng
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píngshēng
set phrase
throughout one's life
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '平生' 1; FE '平生'; GHDC '平生' 2) -
píngshēng
adverb
usually
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '平生' 2; GHDC '平生' 1)
Contained in
- 平生不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊(平生不做虧心事，半夜敲門心不驚) He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
- 素昧平生 to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted; a complete stranger; not to know sb from Adam
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 11
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
- 卷三十 Scroll 30 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷一百九十 列傳第七十七: 儒學二 Volume 190 Biographies 77: Confucian Scholars 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 4
- 卷六十七 列傳第二十七 謝靈運 Volume 67 Biographies 27: Xie Lingyun Book of Song 宋書 — count: 4
- 卷三百八十五 列傳第一百四十四 葛邲 錢端禮 魏杞 周葵 施師點 蕭燧 龔茂良 Volume 385 Biographies 144: Ge Bi, Qian Duanli, Wei Qi, Zhou Kui, Shi Shidian, Xiao Sui, Gong Maoliang History of Song 宋史 — count: 4
- 第六十七回 Chapter 67 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第四十五回 Chapter 45 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 3
- 卷七十二 列傳第二十二: 虞世南 李百藥 褚亮 Volume 72 Biographies 22: Yu Shinian, Li Baiyao, Chuliang Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 3
- 第九十五回 Chapter 95 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 3
Collocations
- 及平生 (及平生) 语及平生 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十一 獨行列傳 Volume 81: Biographies of Loners — count: 6
- 说平生 (說平生) 但說平生 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十六 蜀書六 關張馬黃趙傳 Volume 36: Book of Shu 6 - Biographies of Guan, Zhang, Ma, Huang, and Zhao — count: 5
- 叙平生 (敘平生) 述敘平生 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十上 皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 — count: 4
- 平生知 (平生知) 吾平生知韓信為人 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《淮陰侯列傳》 Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin — count: 4
- 忘平生 (忘平生) 久要不忘平生之言 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 14. 《憲問》 Xian Wen — count: 3
- 平生常事 (平生常事) 多說平生常事 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two — count: 3
- 陈说平生 (陳說平生) 陳說平生 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四十九 列傳第十九 阮籍 嵇康 向秀 劉伶 謝鯤 胡毋輔之 畢卓 王尼 羊曼 光逸 Volume 49 Biographies 19: Ruan Ji; Ji Kang; Xiang Xiu; Liu Ling; Xie Kun; Huwu Fuzhi; Bi Zhuo; Wang Ni; Yang Man; Guang Yi — count: 2
- 平生意 (平生意) 猶冀悟平生意也 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百二十七 載記第二十七 慕容德 Volume 12 Records 27: Murong De — count: 2
- 上平生 (上平生) 上平生所憎 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《留侯世家》 House of Marquis of Liu — count: 2
- 谓平生 (謂平生) 謂平生常經也 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十二 奉使 Chapter 12: Receiving and Implementing Orders — count: 2