食言 shíyán

shíyán noun to eat one's words; to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege; unsworn testimony
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '食言')

Also contained in

食言而肥

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 50 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 48 Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 — count: 1
  • Scroll 6 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 5 Jātaka stories (Sheng Jing) 生經 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 21 Notes on the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya 俱舍論記 — count: 1
  • Scroll 10 Abhidharmanyāyānusāraśāstra (Apidamo Shun Zheng Lilun) 阿毘達磨順正理論 — count: 1
  • Scroll 12 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang 洛陽伽藍記 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 50 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶 — count: 1
  • Scroll 30 Abhidharmanyāyānusāraśāstra (Apidamo Shun Zheng Lilun) 阿毘達磨順正理論 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 含食言 (含食言) 時六眾苾芻含食言話 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 50 — count: 2
  • 给孤独食言 (給孤獨食言) 給孤獨食言 — Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律, Scroll 50 — count: 2