膝 xī
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xī
noun
knee
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 膝盖 (CC-CEDICT '膝'; Guoyu '膝' n 1; Unihan '膝') -
xī
verb
to kneel
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 跪 (Guoyu '膝' v)
Contained in
- 交臂屈膝 to cup one's hands and kneel
- 促膝 knees pressed close; intimate; seated side by side; in close contact
- 盘膝(盤膝) cross-legged
- 牛膝 Achyranthes bidentata
- 牛膝草 hyssop
- 膝盖骨(膝蓋骨) kneecap
- 促膝谈心(促膝談心) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk
- 磕膝盖(磕膝蓋) knee
- 下膝 to kneel
- 双膝(雙膝) both knees
- 护膝(護膝) kneepad; knee brace
- 屈膝 to kneel ; window latch
- 膝上舞 lap dance
- 绕膝(繞膝) (children) run around parent's knees; to stay to look after one's elderly parents
- 齐膝(齊膝) level with one's knees; knee-length (skirt etc); knee-deep (mud etc)
- 男人膝下有黄金(男人膝下有黃金) the man has gold under his knees
- 膝盖(膝蓋) knee
- 膝上型 laptop
- 卑躬屈膝 to humbly bow and kneel
- 屈膝礼(屈膝禮) curtsy
- 膝袒 to walk on one's knees and bare one's breast (a gesture of deepest apology)
- 膝下 at the knee
- 奴颜婢膝(奴顏婢膝) servile and bending the knee; fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor
- 绕膝承欢(繞膝承歡) to live with one's parents, thus bringing them happiness
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- 卷12 志第7 禮儀七 Volume 12 Treatises 7: Rites 7 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 13
- 卷一百五十一 志第一百〇四 輿服三 Volume 151 Treatises 104: Carriages and Clothes 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 13
- 卷七十八 志第二十八: 輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 13
- 卷四十五 志第二十五: 輿服 Volume 45 Treatises 25: Carriages and Clothes Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 11
- 卷二十四 志第十四 車服 Volume 24 Treatises 15: Carraiges and Attire New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 10
- 卷六十七 志第四十三 輿服三 Volume 67 Treatises 43: Carriages and Clothing 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 9
- 卷七十九 志第二十九: 輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 9
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Collocations
- 蔽膝 (蔽膝) 布蔽膝 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十九上 王莽傳 Volume 99a: Wang Mang 1 — count: 21
- 膝行 (膝行) 膝行頓顙 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 4 — count: 16
- 过膝 (過膝) 手過膝 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷三 帝紀第三 世祖武帝 Volume 3 Annals 3: Emperor Wu — count: 15
- 造膝 (造膝) 当造膝谏之 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十 魏書二十 武文世王公傳 Volume 20: Book of Wei 20 - Biographies of nobles in Emperors Wu and Wen's time — count: 13
- 膝上 (膝上) 膝上叩頭 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷七 精神訓 Chapter 7: Spirit — count: 11
- 隐膝 (隱膝) 隱膝 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷十七 志第九 輿服 Volume 17 Treatises 9: Caraiges and Dress — count: 6
- 膝席 (膝席) 餘半膝席 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《魏其武安侯列傳》 Biographies of the Marquis of Weiqi and the Marquis of Wu'an — count: 4
- 肿膝 (腫膝) 踒肩而腫膝 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說林下第二十三 Chapter 23: Collections of Persuasions II — count: 4
- 容膝 (容膝) 審容膝之易安 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十四 列傳第六十四 隱逸 Volume 94 Biographies 64: Hermits and Recluses — count: 4
- 置膝 (置膝) 寧引白削置膝上 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷五十五 吳書十 程黃韓蔣周陳董甘淩徐潘丁傳 Volume 55: Book of Wu 10 - Biographies of Cheng, Huang, Han, Jiang, Zhou, Chen, Dong, Gan, Ling, Xu, Pan, and Ding — count: 4