性命 xìngmìng

  1. xìngmìng noun life [of a person]
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 性命 refers to the life of a specific person or being. For example, from 出师表 To Lead out the Army, by Zhuge Liang in Scroll 37 of 文選 ”Wen Xuan”, 苟全性命 '[I] sought only to stay alive' (Pollard 2002, p. 27; CC-CEDICT '性命'; Guoyu '性命' 1; )
  2. xìngmìng noun life [concept]
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 性命 refers to the concept of life (CC-CEDICT '性命'; Guoyu '性命' 2)

Also contained in

爱惜性命性命攸关苟全性命

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 9 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 16
  • Scroll 14 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 7
  • Scroll 1 Monijiao Xia Bu Zan 摩尼教下部讚 — count: 6
  • Scroll 8 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 6
  • Scroll 8 Zi Men Jing Xun 緇門警訓 — count: 6
  • Scroll 16 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 6
  • Scroll 2 Zhe Yi Lun 折疑論 — count: 5
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 4
  • Scroll 16 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 4
  • Scroll 22 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 4 , has English translation

Collocations

  • 存性命 (存性命) 食草木子以存性命 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 6 — count: 16
  • 舍性命 (捨性命) 欲捨性命 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 9
  • 穷性命 (窮性命) 窮性命 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 10 — count: 9
  • 全性命 (全性命) 令汝安隱得全性命 — Jātaka stories of the Bodhisattva (Pusa Benyuan Jing) 菩薩本緣經, Scroll 2 — count: 8
  • 不惜性命 (不惜性命) 不惜性命入泥入水相 — Quotations from Chan Master Yunmen Kuangzhen 雲門匡真禪師廣錄, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 性命在 (性命在) 性命在呼吸之間 — Zong Jing Lu 宗鏡錄, Scroll 42 — count: 5
  • 恐性命 (恐性命) 亦恐性命有虞 — Xiu Xi Zhi Guan Zuochan Fa Yao 修習止觀坐禪法要, Scroll 1 — count: 4
  • 性命底 (性命底) 有不顧性命底漢 — Quotations from Chan Master Fayan 法演禪師語錄, Scroll 1 — count: 4
  • 性命难 (性命難) 性命難存 — The Blue Cliff Record (Biyanlu) 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄, Scroll 6 — count: 3
  • 性命事 (性命事) 人之性命事 — Quotations from Chan Master Fayan 法演禪師語錄, Scroll 2 — count: 3