其次 qícì

1. qícì adjective secondary
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 次要 (CC-CEDICT '其次'; Guoyu '其次' 2)
2. qícì adjective second in position; next
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 第二 (CC-CEDICT '其次'; Guoyu '其次' 1; Mathews 1931 '其次', p. 69)

Contained in

• 退而求其次 to settle for second best; the next best thing

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷四十一 Scroll 41 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 9
• 卷六十二 司馬遷傳 Volume 62: Sima Qian Book of Han 漢書 — count: 8
• 卷二百〇一 志第一百五十四 刑法三 Volume 201 Treatises 154: Punishment and Law 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7
• 卷一百八十七 志第一百四十 兵一 Volume 187 Treatises 140: Military 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 5
• 卷一百九十六　　列傳第一百二十一 隱逸 Volume 196 Biographies 121: Recluses New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 5
• 卷四十七 Scroll 47 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
• 魯語上 Discourses of Lu I Guoyu 國語 — count: 5
• 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 5
• 《子路第十三》 Commentary on Zi Lu XIII Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 5
• 卷五　Scroll 5 Discourses on Salt and Iron 鹽鐵論 — count: 4

Collocations

• 问其次 (問其次) 敢問其次 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 13. 《子路》 Zi Lu — count: 9
• 其次序 (其次序) 曲得其次序 — Xunzi 荀子, 禮論篇第十九 Chapter 19: Discussion on Ceremony — count: 7
• 其次莫如 (其次莫如) 其次莫如猛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
• 其次君臣 (其次君臣) 其次君臣 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十二 董卓列傳 Volume 72: Biography of Dong Zhuo — count: 4
• 其次立功 (其次立功) 其次立功也 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng — count: 4
• 其次伐 (其次伐) 其次伐交 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 3
• 其次辟 (其次辟) 其次辟地 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 14. 《憲問》 Xian Wen — count: 3
• 失其次 (失其次) 能論官此三材者而無失其次 — Xunzi 荀子, 君道篇第十二 Chapter 12: The Way of the Sovereign — count: 3
• 其次一 (其次一) 其次一之 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 3
• 其次食 (其次食) 其次食八人 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 3