不立 bùlì
bùlì
adjective
unsuccessful; unstable
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '不立')
Contained in
- 孤证不立(孤證不立) unacceptable as uncorroborated evidence (in law or in textual criticism)
- 矜功不立 boasts a lot, but nothing comes of it
- 不破不立 without destruction there can be no construction
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 6
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 4
- 卷八十三 列傳第七十一: 文苑 Volume 83 Biographies 71: Men of Letters History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 3
- 昭公 Lord Zhao Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳 — count: 3
- 周語上 Discourses of Zhou I Guoyu 國語 — count: 3
- 卷四百〇六 列傳第一百六十五 崔與之 洪咨夔 許奕 陳居仁 劉漢弼 Volume 406 Biographies 165: Cui Yuzhi, Hong Zikui, Xu Yi, Chen Juren, Liu Hanbi History of Song 宋史 — count: 3
- 卷八十六 列傳第七十四: 循吏 Volume 86 Biographies 74: Virtuous Officials History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 3
- 卷四十三 朱樂何列傳 Volume 43: Biographies of Zhu, Yue, He Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 3
- 卷十七 志第七 禮四 Volume 17 Treatises 7: Rituals 4 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 3
- 卷四十五 列傳第二十六 宗室 Volume 45 Biographies 26: The Imperial Clan Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 3
Collocations
- 功不立 (功不立) 其功不立 — Guanzi 管子, 版法解第六十六 Chapter 66: Ban Fa Jie — count: 7
- 廉耻不立 (廉恥不立) 則廉恥不立 — Guanzi 管子, 立政第四 Chapter 4: Establishing Governance — count: 5
- 信不立 (信不立) 民無信不立 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 12. 《顏淵》 Yan Yuan — count: 5
- 法不立 (法不立) 法不立 — Guanzi 管子, 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa — count: 5
- 不立子 (不立子) 吾不立子者 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 3
- 不立太子 (不立太子) 諸樊知季子札賢而不立太子 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《刺客列傳》 Biographies of Assassins — count: 3
- 德不立 (德不立) 由主德不立 — Guanzi 管子, 君臣上第三十 Chapter 30: A Ruler and his Ministers I — count: 3
- 久不立 (久不立) 其後桂見太祖久不立太子 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三 魏書三 明帝紀 Volume 3: Book of Wei 3 - Annals of Emperor Ming — count: 2
- 道不立 (道不立) 大中之道不立 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十一 匡張孔馬傳 Volume 81: Kuang, Zhang, Kong and Ma — count: 2
- 诚不立 (誠不立) 非誠不立 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七下之下 五行志 Volume 27e: Treatise on the Five Elements 5 — count: 2