魁 kuí
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kuí
noun
a chief; a leader
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '魁'; Guoyu '魁' n 2; Kroll 2015 '魁' 2, p. 247; Unihan '魁') -
kuí
adjective
monstrous; tall and strong
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '魁' n 5 Unihan '魁') -
kuí
proper noun
Kui; the first star in the Big Dipper
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Astronomy , Concept: Star 恒星
Notes: Or the four stars making the shape of a ladle (Guoyu '魁' n 4; Kroll 2015 '魁' 1a, p. 247) -
kuí
noun
ladle; dipper
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '魁' n 1; Kroll 2015 '魁' 1, p. 247) -
kuí
adjective
first; prominant; best
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '魁' 2a, p. 247; Unihan '魁') -
kuí
noun
a mound
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '魁' 1a, p. 247) -
kuài
adjective
alone
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '魁' kuài, p. 247) -
kuí
proper noun
Kui
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '魁' n 6)
Contained in
- 祸首罪魁(禍首罪魁) main offender, criminal ringleader; main culprit; main cause of a disaster
- 临魁(臨魁) Linkui
- 魁蚶 arc clam (Arca inflata)
- 魁伟(魁偉) tall and big; stalwart
- 魁元 brightest and best; chief; first among peers
- 罪魁祸首(罪魁禍首) criminal ringleader, main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster
- 魁星阁(魁星閣) temple to Kuixing, Daoist God of fate
- 岸魁 a hero
- 易洛魁 Iroquois
- 花魁 the queen of flowers (refers especially to plum blossom); nickname for a famous beauty or courtesan
- 党魁(黨魁) faction leader; head of political party
- 魁梧 tall and sturdy
- 夺魁(奪魁) to seize; to win
- 魁首 chief; first; brightest and best
- 罪魁 criminal ringleader; chief culprit; cause of a problem
- 魁星 stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the rectangular body of the dipper
Also contained in
魁省 、 魁北克 、 渠魁 、 魁北克省 、 冯魁 、 魁北克市
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十三 志第六 天文六 Volume 53 Treatises 6: Astronomy 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 27
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- 卷五十七 志第十 天文十 Volume 57 Treatises 10: Astronomy 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 15
- 卷二百七十九 列傳第一百六十七 呂大器 文安之 樊一蘅 吳炳 王錫袞 堵胤錫 嚴起恒 朱天麟 楊畏知 吳貞毓 Volume 279 Biographies 167: Lu Daqi, Wen Anzhi, Fan Yiheng, Wu Bing, Wang Xigun, Du Yinxi, Yan Qiheng, Zhu Tianlin, Yang Weizhi, Wu Zhenyu History of Ming 明史 — count: 14
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- 卷三十一 志第七 曆一 Volume 31 Treatises 7: Calendar 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 13
- 卷六十四 志第十七 五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 13
- 卷十一 志第一 天文上 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Astronomy Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 12
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Collocations
- 斗魁 (鬥魁) 斗魁戴匡六星曰文昌宮 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《天官書》 Astronomy — count: 55
- 魁岸 (魁岸) 充為人魁岸 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷四十五 蒯伍江息夫傳 Volume 45: Kuai , Wu, Jiang and Xifu — count: 33
- 北斗魁 (北斗魁) 北斗魁主殺 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第十 天文上 王莽三 光武十二 Volume 100: Astronomy Part One — count: 28
- 魁中 (魁中) 在斗魁中 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《天官書》 Astronomy — count: 24
- 魁帅 (魁帥) 徙其魁帥於它郡 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷一下 光武帝紀 Volume 1b: Annals of Emperor Guangwu — count: 20
- 容貌魁 (容貌魁) 容貌魁傑 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百一十一 載記第十一 慕容暐 Volume 111 Records 11: Murong Wei; Murong Ke; Yang Wu; Huangfu Zhen — count: 15
- 貌魁 (貌魁) 虔姿貌魁傑 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷15 昭成子孫 Volume 15: Shancheng's (Tuoba Shiyijian) Children and Grandchildren — count: 13
- 魁杰 (魁傑) 魁傑有雄姿 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷六 魏書六 董二袁劉傳 Volume 6: Book of Wei 6 - Biographies of Dong, the two Yuans, and Liu — count: 11
- 魁头 (魁頭) 大率皆魁頭露紒 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十五 東夷列傳 Volume 85: Treatise on the Dongyi — count: 9
- 魁前 (魁前) 在北斗魁前 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十一 志第一 天文上 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Astronomy Part One — count: 8