知己 zhījǐ
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zhījǐ
noun
a close friend
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '知己'; Guoyu '知己' 2; Mathews 1931 '知己', p. 57) -
zhījǐ
verb
to know oneself
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '知己'; Guoyu '知己' 1)
Contained in
- 士为知己者死，女为悦己者容(士為知己者死，女為悅己者容) a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
- 蓝颜知己(藍顏知己) close male friend; confidant
- 海内存知己，天涯若比邻(海內存知己，天涯若比鄰) close friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door; close in spirit although far away
- 知己知彼 know yourself, know your enemy
- 酒逢知己千杯少 a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet
- 红颜知己(紅顏知己) close female friend; confidante
- 视为知己(視為知己) to consider as close friend; to take into one's confidence
- 知彼知己 to know the enemy and know oneself
- 知己知彼，百战不殆(知己知彼，百戰不殆) know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated
- 知彼知己，百战不殆(知彼知己，百戰不殆) knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles
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- 第二回 Chapter 32 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 7
- 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷四十一 Scroll 41 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 《管晏列傳》 Biographies of Guan and Yan Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 3
- 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 3
- 《刺客列傳》 Biographies of Assassins Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 3
- 卷四十九 吳書四 劉繇太史慈士燮傳 Volume 49: Book of Wu 4 - Biographies of Liu Yao, Taishi Ci, and Shi Xie Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 2
- 卷二十七 韓二 Chapter 27: Han II Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 2
Collocations
- 遇知己 (遇知己) 未遇知己 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十一 第五鍾離宋寒列傳 Volume 41: Biographies of Diwu, Zhongli, Song, Han — count: 11
- 死知己 (死知己) 士死知己 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十一 李陳龐陳橋列傳 Volume 51: Biographies of Li, Chen, Pang, Chen, Qiao — count: 6
- 逢知己 (逢知己) 方審卿複逢知己 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷八十二 列傳第四十二 周朗 沈懷文 Volume 82 Biographies 42: Zhou Lang, Shen Huaiwen — count: 5
- 人知己 (人知己) 知者使人知己 — Xunzi 荀子, 子道篇第二十九 Chapter 29: The Way of the Son — count: 4
- 知己死 (知己死) 士為知己死 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十一 魏書二十一 王衛二劉傅傳 Volume 21: Book of Wei 21 - Biographies of Wang, Wei, and the two Lius — count: 4
- 知己难 (知己難) 然知己難遭 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百一十八 載記第十八 姚興下 Volume 118 Records 18: Yao Xing Part Two — count: 3
- 负知己 (負知己) 斯為不負知己矣 — History of Song 宋史, 卷三百四十四 列傳第一百〇三 孫覺 李常 孔文仲 李周 鮮于侁 顧臨 李之純 王覿 馬默 Volume 344 Biographies 103: Sun Jue, Li Chang, Kong Wenzhong, Li Zhou, Xian Yushen, Gu Lin, Li Zhichun, Wang Di, Ma Mo — count: 3
- 知己传 (知己傳) 知己傳 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷33 志第28 經籍二 Volume 33 Treatises 28: Bibliography 2 — count: 3
- 伯乐知己 (伯樂知己) 知伯樂知己也 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷二十五 Scroll 25 — count: 3
- 珙知己 (珙知己) 庭芝感珙知己 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百十一 列傳第一百七十 湯璹 蔣重珍 牟子才 朱貔孫 歐陽守道 Volume 411 Biographies 170: Tang Shu, Jiang Zhongzhen, Mou Zicai, Zhu Pisun, Ouyang Shoudao — count: 2