伐柯 fákē
fákē
set phrase
How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax; fig. to follow a principle; fig. to act as matchmaker
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Cf Book of Songs (CC-CEDICT '伐柯')
Contained in
- 操斧伐柯 How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax; to follow a principle
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 國風‧豳‧伐柯 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Fa Ke The Book of Songs 詩經 — count: 6
- 《中庸章句》 Commentary on Doctrine of the Mean Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 4
- 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 3
- 卷七十一 列傳第二十一: 魏徵 Volume 71 Biographies 21: Wei Zheng Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 卷二十八 列傳第九 崔祖思 劉善明 蘇侃 垣榮祖 Volume 28 Biographies 9: Cui Zusi, Liu Shanming, Su Kan, Yuan Rongzu Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 1
- 越語下 Discourses of Yue II Guoyu 國語 — count: 1
- 越語上 Discourses of Yue I Guoyu 國語 — count: 1
- 卷六十八 列傳第二十八 武二王 Volume 68 Biographies 28: Wu Erwang Book of Song 宋書 — count: 1
Collocations
- 伐柯伐柯 (伐柯伐柯) 伐柯伐柯 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧豳‧伐柯 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Fa Ke — count: 12
- 譬伐柯 (譬伐柯) 取譬伐柯 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷71 列傳第36 誠節 Volume 71 Biographies 36: Sincere Men — count: 2
- 在伐柯 (在伐柯) 南路在伐柯 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷二十六 Scroll 26 — count: 2