西施 xīshī
xīshī
proper noun
Xishi
Domain: History 历史
, Subdomain: China
, Concept: Person 人
Notes: C. 450 BCE; Famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the Four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu (CC-CEDICT '西施'; Wikipedia '西施')
Contained in
- 西施犬 shih tzu (dog breed)
- 槟榔西施(檳榔西施) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth
- 情人眼里出西施(情人眼裡出西施) beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- 情人眼里有西施(情人眼裡有西施) In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty . Beauty in the eye of the beholder
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷四十二 Scroll 42 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷十九 脩務訓 Chapter 19: Cultivation of Effort Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 4
- A Tune of Crows Roosting Before the Eve Selections of Tang Poetry — count: 3
- 卷十五 Scroll 15 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷十一 齊四 Chapter 11: Qi IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 3
- 卷五十五 Scroll 55 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷五十一 Scroll 51 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 74 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 卷十二 越絕內經九術第十四 越絕外傳記軍氣第十五 Scroll 12 Yue Jue Shu 越絕書 — count: 2
Collocations
- 美女西施 (美女西施) 句踐所習教美女西施 — Yue Jue Shu 越絕書, 卷八 越絕外傳記地傳第十 Scroll 8 — count: 5
- 斥西施 (斥西施) 斥西施而弗御兮 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng — count: 2
- 病西施 (病西施) 多病西施 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 65 — count: 2
- 西施斥 (西施斥) 西施斥於北宮兮 — Songs of Chu 楚辭, 卷第十六 九歎 Chapter 16: Nine Laments — count: 2
- 醉西施 (醉西施) 吳王宮裏醉西施 — Selections of Tang Poetry, A Tune of Crows Roosting Before the Eve — count: 2
- 遗西施 (遺西施) 越王句踐竊有天之遺西施 — Yue Jue Shu 越絕書, 卷十二 越絕內經九術第十四 越絕外傳記軍氣第十五 Scroll 12 — count: 2
- 西施郑 (西施鄭) 越王飾美女西施鄭巴 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷三十四 Scroll 34 — count: 2
- 西施掩 (西施掩) 西施掩面 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十九 Scroll 19 — count: 2
- 见西施 (見西施) 見西施之容 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十九 魏書十九 任城陳蕭王傳 Volume 19: Book of Wei 19 - Biographies of the princes of Rencheng, Chen, and Xiao — count: 2
- 西施一 (西施一) 西施一也 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十九 Scroll 19 — count: 2