德薄 dé báo
dé báo
phrase
scant virtue
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Collocation: from Chapter 7 滅國上 Destruction of a State I in Scroll 5 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 153)
Contained in
- 德薄才疏 scant virtue and lacking ability
- 才轻德薄(才輕德薄) lacking ability and scant virtue
- 名微德薄 little known and scant virtue
- 材轻德薄(材輕德薄) lacking ability and scant virtue
- 德薄能鲜(德薄能鮮) little virtue and meager abilities
- 功微德薄 little merit and scant virtue
- 才疏德薄 lacking ability and scant virtue
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百二十 列傳第七十: 郭子儀 Volume 120 Biographies 70: Guo Ziyi Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 3
- 卷九 主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 2
- 卷二十五 志第五: 禮儀五 Volume 25 Treatises 5: Rites 5 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 《孝文本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowen Emperor Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 2
- 卷一下 光武帝紀 Volume 1b: Annals of Emperor Guangwu Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 卷五十 Scroll 50 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
- 十過第十 Chapter 10: Ten Faults Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 2
- 卷三十五 唐六臣傳第二十三: 張文蔚 楊涉 張策 趙光逢 薛貽矩 蘇循 Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 1
- 卷八十二 列傳第七十: 儒林下 Volume 82 Biographies 70: Confucian Scholars 2 History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 1
Collocations
- 德薄位 (德薄位) 德薄位尊 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十九上 王莽傳 Volume 99a: Wang Mang 1 — count: 7
- 君德薄 (君德薄) 今吾君德薄 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 十過第十 Chapter 10: Ten Faults — count: 5
- 夫德薄 (夫德薄) 夫德薄而位厚 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷三十九 列傳第九 王沈 荀顗 荀勖 馮紞 Volume 39 Biographies 9: Wang Chen; Xun Yi; Xun Xu; Feng Dan — count: 3
- 德薄不足 (德薄不足) 吾德薄不足以蔭卿 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十一 魏書十一 袁張涼國田王邴管傳 Volume 11: Book of Wei 11 - Biographies of Yuan, Zhang, Liang, Guo, Tian, Wang, Bing, and Guan — count: 3
- 福德薄 (福德薄) 當由其福德薄所致 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷二十一 列傳第二 文惠太子 Volume 21 Biographies 2: Crown Prince Wenhui — count: 2
- 自称德薄 (自稱德薄) 自稱德薄 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四 孝和孝殤帝紀 Volume 4: Annals of Emperor Xiaohe; Emperor Xiaoshang — count: 2
- 德薄任重 (德薄任重) 德薄任重 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十二 蜀書十二 杜周杜許孟來尹李譙郤傳 Volume 42: Book of Shu 12 - Biographies of Du, Zhou, Du, Xu, Meng, Lai, Yin, Li, Qiao, and Xi — count: 2
- 太守德薄 (太守德薄) 太守德薄不勝任之所致 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷39 列傳第4 于義 陰壽 竇榮定 元景山 源雄 豆盧勣 賀若誼 Volume 39 Biographies 4: Yu Yi, Yin Shou, Dou Rongding, Yuan Jingshan, Yuan Xiong, Dou Luji, He Ruoyi — count: 2
- 德薄任 (德薄任) 夫德薄任隆 — Book of Chen 陳書, 卷三十四 列傳第二十八: 文學 Volume 34: Men of Letters — count: 2
- 父德薄 (父德薄) 汝父德薄 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十二 蜀書二 先主傳 Volume 32: Book of Shu 2 - Biography of the Former Lord — count: 2