成仁 chéngrén
chéngrén
verb
to work towards a good cause; to die for a good cause
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '成仁'; Guoyu '成仁')
Contained in
- 成仁取义(成仁取義) to sacrifice oneself for a righteous cause
- 不成功便成仁 to succeed or die trying
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百八十七上 列傳第一百三十七上: 忠義上 Volume 187 Biographies 137: Loyal and Righteous 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 卷六十三 李杜列傳 Volume 63: Biographies of Li, Du Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 《衛靈公第十五》 Commentary on Wei Ling Gong XV Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 2
- 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷五十四 李廣蘇建傳 Volume 54: Li Guang and Su Jian Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 卷一百十六 列傳第四 諸王一 Volume 116 Biographies 4: Princes 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
- 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 卷36 列傳第1 后妃 Volume 36 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 1
- 卷四 魏書四 三少帝紀 Volume 4: Book of Wei 4 - Annals of the three young emperors Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
- 卷五十一 列傳第二十一 皇甫謐 摯虞 束皙 王接 Volume 51 Biographies 21: Huangfu Mi; Zhi Yu; Shu Xi; Wang Jie Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
Collocations
- 身成仁 (身成仁) 而不廝殺身成仁之為美 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十下 班彪列傳 Volume 40b: Biography of Ban Biao 2 — count: 12