少言 shǎo yán

shǎo yán phrase rarely talked
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from the poem 五柳先生傳 “Gentleman of the Five Willows” by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming 365-427 in Scroll 6 of 陶淵明集 Tao Yuanming Collected Poems (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Hightower 2000, p. 494)

Also contained in

沉静少言 、 沉重少言

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 18 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 6 , has English translation
  • Scroll 38 Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經 — count: 2
  • Scroll 5 Collection of Meanings and Terms in Translation (Fanyi Mingyi Ji) 翻譯名義集 — count: 2
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Chan Master Fenyang Wude 汾陽無德禪師語錄 — count: 2
  • Scroll 2 Jing Xin Jie Guan Fa 淨心戒觀法 — count: 2
  • Scroll 1 Sutra on the Four Noble Truths (Si Di Jing) 四諦經 — count: 2
  • Scroll 6 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 2 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 332 The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 大般若波羅蜜多經 — count: 2 , has parallel version
  • Scroll 2 Exploring the Mysteries of the Avatamsaka Sutra (Huayan Jing Tan Xuan Ji) 華嚴經探玄記 — count: 1
  • Scroll 2 Dasheng Fa Yuan Yi Lin Zhang 大乘法苑義林章 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 少言说 (少言說) 當學不憍慠及少言說 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 6 — count: 7
  • 省事少言 (省事少言) 省事少言 — Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳, Scroll 28 — count: 6
  • 默少言 (默少言) 宴默少言 — Samādhirājacandrapradīpasūtra (Yue Deng Sanmei Jing) 月燈三昧經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
  • 少言语 (少言語) 若少言語 — The Perfection of Wisdom in 25,000 Lines 摩訶般若波羅蜜經, Scroll 18 — count: 4
  • 少言摄 (少言攝) 謂以少言攝集 — Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Shu 大方廣佛華嚴經疏, Scroll 6 — count: 4
  • 好少言 (好少言) 或好少言 — The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 大般若波羅蜜多經, Scroll 332 — count: 4
  • 少言现 (少言現) 若以少言現大瞋恚 — Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律, Scroll 18 — count: 3
  • 少言词 (少言詞) 以少言詞豈能讚歎 — Suvarṇavarṇāvadāna (Jinse Tongzi Yinyuan Jing) 金色童子因緣經, Scroll 11 — count: 3
  • 少言辞 (少言辭) 而少言辭則為行法 — Mahāyānopadeśa (Bao Nu Suo Wen Jing) 寶女所問經, Scroll 4 — count: 3
  • 少言多 (少言多) 少言多中不離佛語 — Chu Yao Jing (Dharmapada) 出曜經, Scroll 11 — count: 3