徘徊 páihuái
páihuái
verb
to dither; to hesitate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: This is an example of a rhyming semi-reduplicate in Literary Chinese (Norman 1988p. 87).
Contained in
- 春江浩荡暂徘徊(春江浩蕩暫徘徊) in spring we loiter by the rolling river's side
- 徘徊于桂椒之间(徘徊於桂椒之間) it wanders among the osmanthus and pepper-trees
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
- 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷14 志第9 音樂中 Volume 14 Treatises 9: Music 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 4
- 卷二十三 志第十三 樂下 Volume 23 Treatises 13: Music Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 4
- 卷三十 Scroll 30 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷四 Scroll 4 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
Collocations
- 心徘徊 (心徘徊) 心徘徊以躊躇 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四十九 列傳第十九 阮籍 嵇康 向秀 劉伶 謝鯤 胡毋輔之 畢卓 王尼 羊曼 光逸 Volume 49 Biographies 19: Ruan Ji; Ji Kang; Xiang Xiu; Liu Ling; Xie Kun; Huwu Fuzhi; Bi Zhuo; Wang Ni; Yang Man; Guang Yi — count: 4
- 徘徊久之 (徘徊久之) 必徘徊久之 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷64 郭祚 張彝 Volume 64: Guo Zuo, Zhang Yi — count: 4
- 节徘徊 (節徘徊) 於是楚王乃弭節徘徊 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷五十七上 司馬相如傳 Volume 57a: Sima Xiangru — count: 3
- 徘徊云 (徘徊雲) 徘徊雲日間 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十三 志第十三 樂下 Volume 23 Treatises 13: Music Part Two — count: 2
- 徘徊寿光 (徘徊壽光) 徘徊壽光閣外 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷十三 列傳第七 范雲 沈約 Volume 13: Fan Yun; Shen Yue — count: 2
- 徘徊良久 (徘徊良久) 徘徊良久 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷五十 吳書五 妃嬪傳 Volume 50: Book of Wu 5 - Biographies of concubines and ladies — count: 2
- 徘徊桑梓 (徘徊桑梓) 徘徊桑梓遊天外 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十三 志第十三 樂下 Volume 23 Treatises 13: Music Part Two — count: 2
- 徘徊招摇 (徘徊招搖) 徘徊招搖 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十七 揚雄傳 上 Volume 87a: Yang Xiong 1 — count: 2
- 徘徊悲鸣 (徘徊悲鳴) 徘徊悲鳴 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷46 列傳第38 孝義 Volume 46 Biographies 38: Filial Piety — count: 2
- 徘徊视 (徘徊視) 徘徊視之 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十二 列傳第六十二 文苑 Volume 92 Biographies 62: Writers — count: 2