铩羽 (鎩羽) shāyǔ

shāyǔ verb for a feather to fall; [by analogy] to give up
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '鎩羽')

Contained in

• 铩羽而归(鎩羽而歸) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷五十 列傳第四十四 文學下 Volume 50: Men of Letters 2 Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 1
• 卷五十四 Scroll 54 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 卷二十一 Scroll 21 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 卷四 Scroll 4 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1

Collocations

• 飞鸟铩羽 (飛鳥鎩羽) 飛鳥鎩羽 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷四 Scroll 4 — count: 4