螟蛉 mínglíng

mínglíng noun a green insect
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: This is an example of a semi-reduplicated word in Literary Chinese with only the last part of the sound repeated (Norman 1988, p. 87).

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 9 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 4 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Supplement to the Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 續一切經音義 — count: 3
• Scroll 3 Qing Guanyin Jing Shu Chan Yi Chao 請觀音經疏闡義鈔 — count: 3
• Scroll 95 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
• Scroll 4 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 2
• Scroll 41 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 1
• Scroll 18 Song Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
• Scroll 2 Quotations from Abbot Ru Jing 如淨和尚語錄 — count: 1
• Scroll 9 Collection of records concerning the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chu San Zang Ji Ji) 出三藏記集 — count: 1
• Scroll 3 The Sūtra on the Mahāyāna Practice of the Six Perfections 大乘理趣六波羅蜜多經 — count: 1

Collocations

• 曰螟蛉 (曰螟蛉) 澹之字曰螟蛉 — The Sutra of Unmeasured Principles (Wu Liang Yi Jing) 無量義經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 螟蛉桑 (螟蛉桑) 螟蛉桑蟲也 — Qing Guanyin Jing Shu Chan Yi Chao 請觀音經疏闡義鈔, Scroll 3 — count: 4
• 螟蛉有子 (螟蛉有子) 螟蛉有子果臝負之 — Qing Guanyin Jing Shu Chan Yi Chao 請觀音經疏闡義鈔, Scroll 3 — count: 3
• 祝螟蛉 (祝螟蛉) 祝螟蛉願其類我 — Annotations for the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra 般若波羅蜜多心經註解, Scroll 1 — count: 2
• 负螟蛉 (負螟蛉) 若負螟蛉以成蜾蠃者 — A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀, Scroll 9 — count: 2