寒蝉 (寒蟬) hánchán

hánchán phrase cicada in winter; fig. mournful sound
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '寒蟬')

Contained in

• 静若寒蝉(靜若寒蟬) as quiet as a cicada in winter
• 噤若寒蝉(噤若寒蟬) to be fearfully silent

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
• 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 卷三十 Scroll 30 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 卷二十七 Scroll 27 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
• 卷六十七 黨錮列傳 Volume 67: Biographies of Partisan Prohibitions Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
• 卷107上 律曆志三上 Volume 107a Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 1
• 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 第二十二回 Chapter 22 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
• 卷六十八 志第二十一 律曆一 Volume 68 Treatises 21: Measures and Calendar 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
• 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1

Collocations

• 寒蝉鸣 (寒蟬鳴) 寒蟬鳴 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 16
• 孟秋寒蝉 (孟秋寒蟬) 孟秋寒蟬應陰而鳴 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷二十三 Scroll 23 — count: 3
• 降寒蝉 (降寒蟬) 大暑六月中腐草為螢土潤溽暑大雨時行立秋七月節涼風至白露降寒蟬鳴處暑七月中鷹祭鳥天地始肅禾乃登 — New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史, 卷五十八 新五代史考第一 Volume 58 Examination on the New Five Dynasties : — count: 2