美言 měiyán
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měiyán
noun
words of praise
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '美言' 1) -
měiyán
noun
wholesome speech
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 善言 (Guoyu '美言' 2) -
měiyán
noun
flowery language
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '美言' 3)
Contained in
- 美言不信 to say words of praise without believing their truth
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 3
- 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 周語下 Discourses of Zhou III Guoyu 國語 — count: 2
- 卷十六 唐廢帝家人傳第四: Volume 16: Family of the Tang Deposed Emperor New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 1
- 《卷八‧日部》 Scroll 8, Rì Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 1
- 卷七十 列傳第二十: 王珪 戴冑 岑文本 杜正倫 Volume 70 Biographies 20: Wang Gui, Dai Zhou, Cen Wenben, Du Zhenglun Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 《滑稽列傳》 Biographies of Jesters Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1
- 第一百十六回 Chapter 116 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 卷七 Scroll 7 Discourses on Salt and Iron 鹽鐵論 — count: 1
- 卷二十 Scroll 20 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
Collocations
- 美言可以 (美言可以) 美言可以市尊 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 5
- 美言笑 (美言笑) 美言笑 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷六十二 列傳第二十二 羊欣 張敷 王微 Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei — count: 3