枭 (梟) xiāo
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xiāo
noun
an owl
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '梟'; Guoyu '梟' n 1; Kroll 2015 '梟' 1, p. 500; Unihan '梟'; Wikipedia '猫头鹰') -
xiāo
adjective
an aggressive person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '梟'; Guoyu '梟' n 3; Kroll 2015 '梟' 2, p. 500) -
xiāo
noun
chief
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '梟' n 2; Kroll 2015 '梟' 3, p. 500) -
xiāo
verb
to hang the severed head of a criminal on a wooden stake
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '梟' v 1; Kroll 2015 '梟' 4, p. 500) -
xiāo
noun
peak; summit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '梟' n 4; Kroll 2015 '梟' 5, p. 500) -
xiāo
verb
hanging
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '梟' 4a, p. 500) -
xiāo
noun
a type; a kind
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '梟' 6, p. 500) -
xiāo
verb
to annihilate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '梟' v 2) -
xiāo
adjective
courageous
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '梟' adj) -
xiāo
pronoun
thus
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '梟') -
xiāo
noun
something evil
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '梟')
Contained in
- 枭骑(梟騎) elite cavalry
- 鸱枭(鴟梟) an owl
- 毒枭(毒梟) drug pusher
- 鸱枭纹(鴟梟紋) owl design
- 夜枭(夜梟) owl
- 枭首示众(梟首示眾) to behead somebody and display the head in public
- 枭雄(梟雄) an ambitious and ruthless character; a formidable person
- 枭首(梟首) to behead
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷五十八 虞傅蓋臧列傳 Volume 58: Biographies of Yu, Fu, Gai, Zang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 8
- 卷八十六 列傳第五十六 張軌 Volume 86 Biographies 56: Zhang Gui Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 7
- 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷四十四 Scroll 44 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷八 Scroll 8 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷十六 楚三 Chapter 16: Chu III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 5
- 卷二十二 志第十二 樂四 Volume 22 Treatises 12: Music 4 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 5
- 卷65 邢巒 李平 Volume 65: Xing Luan, Li Ping Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 4
- 卷三百十七 列傳第二百〇五 廣西土司一 Volume 317 Biographies 205: Guangxi Tribal Headmen 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 4
- 卷十八 辨物 Chapter 18: Distinguishes Things Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 4
Collocations
- 枭夷 (梟夷) 桀逆梟夷 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七 孝桓帝紀 Volume 7: Annals of Emperor Xiaohuan — count: 12
- 枭悬 (梟懸) 身被梟懸之戮 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十四上 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74a: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 1 — count: 6
- 未枭 (未梟) 賊臣未梟 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷七 魏書七 呂布臧洪傳 Volume 7: Book of Wei 7 - Biographies of Lü Bu and Zang Hong — count: 6
- 枭声 (梟聲) 今昔聞梟聲乎 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十八 辨物 Chapter 18: Distinguishes Things — count: 3
- 一枭 (一梟) 祠黃帝用一梟破鏡 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 3
- 能枭 (能梟) 誰能梟之 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷六十 吳書十五 賀全呂周鍾離傳 Volume 60: Book of Wu 15 - Biographies of He, Quan, Lü, Zhou, and Zhongli — count: 3
- 枭斩 (梟斬) 減梟斬族誅從坐之條 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷三十 志第二十 刑法 Volume 30 Treatises 20: Punishment and Law — count: 3
- 枭鸱 (梟鴟) 梟鴟群鳴 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, 卷十三 四時之副第五十五 人副天數第五十六 同類相動第五十七 五行相生第五十八 五行相勝第五十九 五行順逆第六十 治水五行第六十一 Scroll 13 — count: 2
- 未能枭 (未能梟) 未能梟夷凶逆 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五 帝紀第五 孝懷帝 孝愍帝 Volume 5 Annals 5: Emperor Huai; Emperor Min — count: 2
- 贵枭 (貴梟) 博貴梟 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左下第三十三 Chapter 33: A Collection of Sayings IV — count: 2