善 shàn

1. shàn adjective virtuous; wholesome; benevolent; well-disposed
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 善良 (CCD '善' 1; FE '善' 1; GHDC '善' 1)
2. shàn adjective happy
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 吉 (GHDC '善' 5)
3. shàn adjective good
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 良好 (CCD '善' 3)
4. shàn adjective kind-hearted
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 友好 (CCD '善' 4; GHDC '善' 2)
5. shàn verb to be skilled at something
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 工巧 (ABCE '善'; CCD '善' 7; FE '善' 2)
6. shàn adjective familiar
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 熟悉 (CCD '善' 5; GHDC '善' 7)
7. shàn verb to repair
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '善' 4)
8. shàn verb to admire
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 羡慕
9. shàn verb to praise
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 赞许 (GHDC '善' 4)
10. shàn adverb numerous; frequent; easy
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 善 is the same as 常 or 易 (CCD '善' 9; GHDC '善' 5)
11. shàn proper noun Shan
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (CCD '善' 10; GHDC '善' 10)

Contained in

• 慈眉善目 kind brows and pleasant eyes; amiable looking; benign-faced
• 多多益善 the more the better
• 美善 beautiful and good
• 善风(善風) fair wind
• 乐善(樂善) to enjoy doing good deeds
• 驯善(馴善) docile; tractable
• 善信 to devotedly believe
• 假善人 false compassion; bogus charity
• 慈善事业(慈善事業) a charity
• 善罢甘休(善罷甘休) to leave the matter at that; to be prepared to let go; to be willing to take things lying down
• 兼善天下 benevolence spreads over the world
• 善言辞(善言辭) articulate; eloquent
• 能写善算(能寫善算) to be literate and numerate
• 阿拉善 Alxa league
• 善终(善終) to have enjoyed a full life ; a happy ending
• 能歌善舞 a person of many talents
• 善感 sensitive; emotional
• 善缘(善緣) good fate; good karma ; good affinities
• 见善(見善) seeing goodness
• 惩恶劝善(懲惡勸善) to punish evil and urge virtue
• 改过迁善(改過遷善) to correct faults ; to correct faults
• 和善 good-natured; kind; gentle
• 疾恶好善(疾惡好善) to detest evil and like wholesomeness
• 面恶心善(面惡心善) to have a mean-looking face but a heart of gold
• 慈善抽奖(慈善抽獎) a raffle (for charity)
• 广结善缘(廣結善緣) to make friends all around
• 善败(善敗) success and failure ; good and bad; good and evil
• 完善 complete ; to perfect
• 来者不善，善者不来(來者不善，善者不來) He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come .; Be careful not to trust foreigners.
• 善于(善於) to be good at; to be adept in
• 善射 a skilled archer
• 善言 good words
• 攘善 to claim credit due to others; to appropriate other's credit or honor
• 善始善终(善始善終) where there's a start, there's a finish; to finish once one starts something; to carry things through
• 好施乐善(好施樂善) to love giving to charity and to take pleasure in helping people
• 积聚众善(積聚眾善) to accumulate much goodness
• 行善 to do good works; to perform wholesome actions

Also contained in

旌善 、 善德女王 、 善后借款 、 七善法 、 善处 、 贤善 、 断善阐提 、 不善十业 、 善枝 、 教授善知识 、 鄯善县 、 十善根本业道 、 十善道 、 大善知识

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二 Scroll 2 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 338
• 卷三 Scroll 3 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 307
• 卷八 Scroll 8 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 307
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 254
• 卷十五 Scroll 15 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 221
• 卷九 Scroll 9 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 160
• 卷三十九 Scroll 39 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 159
• 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 154
• 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 142
• 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 131

Collocations

• 善善 (善善) 以明有國善善之功焉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧緇衣 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - Zi Yi — count: 10
• 善救 (善救) 善救衛也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 8
• 善辞 (善辭) 善辭也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
• 好善 (好善) 衞文公臣子多好善賢者 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧干旄 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Gan Mao — count: 4
• 曰善 (曰善) 君子曰善戒 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
• 善政 (善政) 德惟善政 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 大禹謨 Yu Shu - Counsels of the Great Yu — count: 4
• 刑善 (刑善) 刑善也夫 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 举善 (舉善) 能舉善也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
• 劝善 (勸善) 懲惡而勸善 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 序 Preface — count: 3
• 善道 (善道) 樂告以善道也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧干旄 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Gan Mao — count: 3