性命 xìngmìng
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xìngmìng
noun
life [of a person]
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 性命 refers to the life of a specific person or being. For example, from 出师表 To Lead out the Army, by Zhuge Liang in Scroll 37 of 文選 ”Wen Xuan”, 苟全性命 '[I] sought only to stay alive' (Pollard 2002, p. 27; CC-CEDICT '性命'; Guoyu '性命' 1; ) -
xìngmìng
noun
life [concept]
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 性命 refers to the concept of life (CC-CEDICT '性命'; Guoyu '性命' 2)
Contained in
- 苟全性命 sought only to remain alive
- 性命攸关(性命攸關) vitally important; a matter of life and death
- 爱惜性命(愛惜性命) cling to life
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
- 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
- 第六十五回 Chapter 65 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
- 第一百八回 Chapter 108 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
- 第三十回 Chapter 30 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
- 第十七回 Chapter 17 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 第七回 Chapter 7 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第七十六回 Chapter 76 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 第六十一回 Chapter 61 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
Collocations
- 全性命 (全性命) 全性命之至重 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷三十 志第二十 刑法 Volume 30 Treatises 20: Punishment and Law — count: 9
- 保性命 (保性命) 所以保性命之真 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十 兿文志 Volume 30: Treatise on Literature — count: 5
- 正性命 (正性命) 各正性命 — Book of Changes 易經, 乾 Qian — count: 4
- 爱性命 (愛性命) 臣等不愛性命 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百一十四 載記第十四 苻堅下 Volume 114 Records 14: Fu Jian Part Two — count: 4
- 存性命 (存性命) 使犯死之徒得存性命 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷三十 志第二十 刑法 Volume 30 Treatises 20: Punishment and Law — count: 4
- 言性命 (言性命) 罕言性命 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十二上 方術列傳 Volume 82a: Biographies of Alchemists 1 — count: 4
- 终性命 (終性命) 不得永終性命 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九 元帝紀 Volume 9: Annals of Emperor Yuan — count: 3
- 性命不同 (性命不同) 則性命不同矣 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — count: 3
- 夫性命 (夫性命) 夫性命者 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一 原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 3
- 性命自有 (性命自有) 大丈夫性命自有所在 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷64 列傳第29 李圓通 陳茂 張定和 張奫 麥鐵杖 沈光 來護兒 魚俱羅 陳稜 王辯 Volume 64 Biographies 29: Li Yuantong, Chen Mao, Zhang Dinghe, Zhang Bian, Mai Tiezhang, Shen Guang, Lai Hua'er, Yu Juluo, Chen Leng, Wang Bian — count: 3