弹琴 (彈琴) tánqín

tánqín verb to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '彈琴')

Contained in

  • 对牛弹琴(對牛彈琴) to play the lute to a cow; offering a treat to an unappreciative audience; to cast pearls before swine; caviar to the general; to preach to deaf ears ; to play the lute to a cow

Also contained in

乱弹琴

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 48 Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經 — count: 10 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 16 Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經 — count: 10 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 2 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 9
  • Scroll 2 Zhuanji Bai Yuan Jing (Avadānaśataka) 撰集百緣經 — count: 9
  • Scroll 43 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 7 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Jing Lu Yi Xiang 經律異相 — count: 5
  • Scroll 1 Xiuxing Ben Qi Jing 修行本起經 — count: 5
  • Scroll 10 Za Baozang Jing 雜寶藏經 — count: 5
  • Scroll 29 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 5 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 14 An Alternative Translation of the Saṃyukta Āgama (Saṁyukatāgamasūtra) 別譯雜阿含經 — count: 5 , has English translation , has parallel version

Collocations

  • 弹琴人 (彈琴人) 拘薩羅國有彈琴人 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 48 — count: 26
  • 过去弹琴 (過去彈琴) 過去彈琴人經一卷 — Records of the Three Treasures Throughout the Successive Dynasties 歷代三寶紀, Scroll 4 — count: 15
  • 弹琴鼓 (彈琴鼓) 彈琴鼓絃歌 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 7 — count: 12
  • 弹琴歌 (彈琴歌) 而獨彈琴歌戲 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 12
  • 牛弹琴 (牛彈琴) 來至憍薩羅國麁牛彈琴人所 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 48 — count: 11
  • 善弹琴 (善彈琴) 善彈琴不 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 9 — count: 7
  • 善巧弹琴 (善巧彈琴) 善巧彈琴 — Zhuanji Bai Yuan Jing (Avadānaśataka) 撰集百緣經, Scroll 2 — count: 4
  • 摩弹琴 (摩彈琴) 如聲聞聞緊陀羅王屯崙摩彈琴歌聲 — Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論, Scroll 17 — count: 4
  • 时弹琴 (時彈琴) 時彈琴人覩其容貌 — An Alternative Translation of the Saṃyukta Āgama (Saṁyukatāgamasūtra) 別譯雜阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 4
  • 能弹琴 (能彈琴) 便能彈琴歌曲 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 4