择木 (擇木) zémù

zémù verb to choose a tree
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '擇木'; Mathews 1931 '擇木', p. 33)

Also contained in

良禽择木而栖良禽择木

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 11 Collection of records concerning the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chu San Zang Ji Ji) 出三藏記集 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Records of Taitai Shan (Tiantai Shan Ji) 天台山記 — count: 1
  • Scroll 28 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 17 Song Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 13 Song Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 5 Ming Biographies of Eminent Monks 大明高僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 4 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 4 Ji Gu Jin Fodao Lun Heng 集古今佛道論衡 — count: 1
  • Scroll 14 Song Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 5 Quotations from Chan Master Ming Jue 明覺禪師語錄 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 择木寮 (擇木寮) 在擇木寮作不釐務 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 17 — count: 3
  • 择木堂 (擇木堂) 於是令居擇木堂 — Ming Biographies of Eminent Monks 大明高僧傳, Scroll 5 — count: 2
  • 择木邓 (擇木鄧) 猶擇木鄧林 — A Biography of the Tripitaka Master of the Great Ci'en Monastery of the Great Tang Dynasty 大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳, Scroll 9 — count: 2
  • 在择木 (在擇木) 在擇木寮作不釐務 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 17 — count: 2
  • 居择木 (居擇木) 既歸徑山居擇木寮 — Shi Jian Ji Gu Lue Xu Ji 釋鑑稽古略續集, Scroll 2 — count: 2