量力 liànglì
liànglì
verb
to estimate one's strength
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '量力')
Contained in
- 自不量力 to overestimate one's capabilities
- 量力而为(量力而為) to weigh one's abilities and act accordingly; to act according to one's means
- 不自量力 to overestimate one's capabilities
- 量力而行 to assess one's capabilities and act accordingly; to act within one's competence
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十二 崔駰列傳 Volume 52: Biography of Cui Yin Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 3
- 十過第十 Chapter 10: Ten Faults Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 3
- 卷三十五 蜀書五 諸葛亮傳 Volume 35: Book of Shu 5 - Biography of Zhuge Liang Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 3
- 卷五十二 Scroll 52 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 戒第二十六 Chapter 26: Jie Di Guanzi 管子 — count: 2
- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 2
- 卷七十七 列傳第四十七 陸曄 何充 褚翜 蔡謨 諸葛恢 殷浩 Volume 77 Biographies 47: Lu Ye; He Chong; Chu Se; Cai Mo; Zhuge Hui; Yin Hao Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 2
- 卷一百二十七 列傳第十四: 伯顏 Volume 127 Biographies 14: Bayan History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
- 哀公 Lord Ai The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 1
- 卷二十七 志第十七 符瑞上 Volume 27 Treatises 17: Auspicious Signs 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 1
Collocations
- 德量力 (德量力) 孤不度德量力 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十五 蜀書五 諸葛亮傳 Volume 35: Book of Shu 5 - Biography of Zhuge Liang — count: 9
- 权量力 (權量力) 比權量力 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 1 — count: 6
- 量力取 (量力取) 量力取辦 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi — count: 3
- 量力守 (量力守) 其量力守志 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十二 列傳第四十六 止足 Volume 52: The Self-Sufficient — count: 3
- 量力度 (量力度) 量力度德 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十二 崔駰列傳 Volume 52: Biography of Cui Yin — count: 2
- 将军量力 (將軍量力) 將軍量力而處之 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十五 蜀書五 諸葛亮傳 Volume 35: Book of Shu 5 - Biography of Zhuge Liang — count: 2