开弓 (開弓) kāigōng

kāigōng verb to pull a bow
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '開弓')

Contained in

• 开弓没有回头箭(開弓沒有回頭箭) once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back; once you started sth, there's no turning back; to have to finish what one started
• 左右开弓(左右開弓) to shoot from both sides; to display ambidexterity; to slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession
• 开弓不放箭(開弓不放箭) to draw the bow without shooting the arrow; to bluff; to be all talk and no action; false bravado

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷一百九十六 志第一百四十九 兵十 Volume 196 Treatises 149: Military 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
• 第五十三回 Chapter 53 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 第五十七回 Chapter 57 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 第一百十回 Chapter 110 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 卷三百九十一 列傳第一百五十 周必大 留正 胡晉臣 Volume 391 Biographies 150: Zhou Bida, Liu Zheng, Hu Jinchen History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
• 《弓部》 Gōng Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 1
• 第五十九回 Chapter 59 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 第七十二回 Chapter 72 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
• 第六十八回 Chapter 68 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 第九十四回 Chapter 94 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1

Collocations

• 开弓射 (開弓射) 禁開弓射馬超 — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 第五十九回 Chapter 59 — count: 3