寡言 guǎyán

guǎyán adjective taciturn; reticent
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '寡言')

Also contained in

沉默寡言 、 沉厚寡言 、 木讷寡言 、 沉重寡言

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 19 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 2
  • Scroll 3 Nan Yue Zong Sheng Ji 南嶽總勝集 — count: 2
  • Scroll 26 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 2
  • Scroll 2 Treasured Instructions of Chan Temples (Chanlin Baoxun) 禪林寶訓 — count: 2
  • Scroll 32 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 9 Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 景德傳燈錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Commentary on the Fo Shuo Bei Sutra 佛說孛經抄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 7 Song Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Ji Gu Jin Fodao Lun Heng 集古今佛道論衡 — count: 1
  • Scroll 3 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 寡言笑 (寡言笑) 寡言笑顧視不常 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 19 — count: 3
  • 沈静寡言 (沈靜寡言) 而尼沈靜寡言 — Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳, Scroll 26 — count: 3
  • 陈寡言 (陳寡言) 香林陳寡言方瀛徐靈府三人 — Nan Yue Zong Sheng Ji 南嶽總勝集, Scroll 3 — count: 2