未能 wèinéng
verb
to fail to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '未能'; CC-CEDICT '未能')
Contained in
- 未能免俗 unable to break the custom ; bound by conventions
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《中庸章句》 Commentary on Doctrine of the Mean Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 11
- 《留侯世家》 House of Marquis of Liu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 8
- 卷十 深察名號第三十五 實性第三十六 諸侯第三十七 五行對第三十八 第三十九 第四十 Scroll 10 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 8
- 卷三十五 Scroll 35 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
- 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
- 卷17 志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 6
- 卷四百二十九 列傳第一百八十八 道學三 朱熹 張栻 Volume 429 Biographies 188: Taoist Scholars 3 - Zhu Xi, Zhang Shi History of Song 宋史 — count: 6
- 卷五十五 列傳第二十五 夏侯湛 潘岳 張載 Volume 55 Biographies 25: Xiahou Zhan; Pan Yue; Zhang Zai Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6
- 卷19 志第14 天文上 Volume 19 Treatises 14: Astronomy 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 6
- 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 5
Collocations
- 曰未能 (曰未能) 曰未能從宗廟社稷之事也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮下》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 2 — count: 6
- 性未能 (性未能) 卵之性未能作雛也 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, 卷十 深察名號第三十五 實性第三十六 諸侯第三十七 五行對第三十八 第三十九 第四十 Scroll 10 — count: 4
- 学而未能 (學而未能) 學而未能 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二十 反質 Chapter 20: Returning to Simplicity — count: 4
- 未能行 (未能行) 未能行之者矣 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十六 說山訓 Chapter 16: A Mountain of Persuasion — count: 4
- 未能一 (未能一) 丘未能一焉 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean — count: 3
- 固未能 (固未能) 固未能自必 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十 敬慎 Chapter 10: Being Reverent and Catious — count: 2
- 未能全 (未能全) 未能全盡 — Xunzi 荀子, 勸學篇第一 Chapter 1: An Exhortation to Study — count: 2
- 尧未能 (堯未能) 堯未能舉 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《本紀‧五帝本紀》 Annals - Annals of the Five Emperors — count: 2
- 力未能 (力未能) 力未能 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《晉世家》 House of Jin — count: 2
- 未能信 (未能信) 吾斯之未能信 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 5. 《公冶長》Gong Ye Chang — count: 2