夜长 (夜長) yè cháng

yè cháng phrase the nights are long
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Collocation: for example, in the poem 自祭文 “Requiem for Myself” by 陶潛 Tao Qian, Scroll 7 of 陶淵明集 Tao Yuanming Collected Poems (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Pollard 2002, p. 29)

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夜长梦多昼短夜长

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  • Scroll 25 Mahāsaṅghikavinaya (Mohesengzhi Lu) 摩訶僧祇律 — count: 8
  • Scroll 2 Chu Yao Jing (Dharmapada) 出曜經 — count: 4
  • Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 3
  • Scroll 33 Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 5 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 2 Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏 — count: 1
  • Scroll 3 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 15 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 36 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 寐夜长 (寐夜長) 不寐夜長 — Fa Ju JIng (Dharmapada) 法句經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
  • 觉夜长 (覺夜長) 三覺夜長修正法 — Chu Yao Jing (Dharmapada) 出曜經, Scroll 2 — count: 3
  • 夜长昼 (夜長晝) 夜長晝短 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 10 — count: 2
  • 知夜长 (知夜長) 愁人知夜長 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 3 — count: 2
  • 短夜长 (短夜長) 短夜長 — Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄, Scroll 1 — count: 2
  • 终夜长 (終夜長) 所以終夜長慨 — Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳, Scroll 15 — count: 2
  • 巨夜长 (巨夜長) 夫巨夜長寢 — Miaofa Lianhua Jing Wen Ju 妙法蓮華經文句, Scroll 1 — count: 2