kěn

  1. kěn verb to agree; to consent; to permit
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '肯'; Guoyu '肯' v 1; Kroll 2015 '肯' 1, p. 240; Unihan '肯')
  2. kěn auxiliary verb agree; willing
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: 肯 is used in this sense as a modal auxiliary verb in Literary Chinese (Guoyu '肯' v 2; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 122; Sun 2006, loc. 1723).
  3. kěn verb acknowledge
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '肯' 1a, p. 240)
  4. kěn verb to be able to
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '肯' 1b, p. 240)
  5. kěn adverb could it be?
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '肯' adv; Kroll 2015 '肯' 2, p. 240)
  6. kěn noun a ligament
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '肯' 3, p. 240)
  7. kěn verb agree; adhivāsayati
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: adhivāsayati, Japanese: kou, or: kai (BCSD '肯', p. 963; Edgerton 1953 'adhivāsayati', p. 15; Unihan '肯')

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  • Scroll 5 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 18 , has English translation
  • Scroll 6 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 16 , has English translation
  • Scroll 4 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 14
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Chan Master Wu Ben from Dongshan, Yunzhou 筠州洞山悟本禪師語錄 — count: 14
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Chan Master Dongshan Liangjia from Ruizhou 瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 — count: 13
  • Scroll 5 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 12
  • Scroll 3 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 11 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 The Blue Cliff Record (Biyanlu) 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 — count: 11 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 10
  • Scroll 19 Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 — count: 10

Collocations

  • 肯信 (肯信) 正言似反誰肯信者 — Pu Yao Jing (Lalitavistara) 普曜經, Scroll 7 — count: 11
  • 未肯 (未肯) 但物情於中猶未肯信佛 — Fa Hua Jing Yi Ji 法華經義記, Scroll 3 — count: 11
  • 肯反 (肯反) 亡肯反 — Mahābalasūtra (Fo Shuo Chusheng Yiqie Rulai Fayan Bian Zhao Dali Ming Wang Jing) 佛說出生一切如來法眼遍照大力明王經, Scroll 1 — count: 8
  • 肯受 (肯受) 莫肯受化 — The Lotus Sutra (Zheng Fa Hua Jing) 正法華經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 肯说 (肯說) 如佛肯說者當問 — Siṃhaparipṛcchā (Taizi Shua Hu Jing) 太子刷護經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
  • 肯作 (肯作) 執此慳心無肯作理 — Sutra on the Names of the Buddhas (Fo Shuo Fo Ming Jing) 佛說佛名經, Scroll 12 — count: 5
  • 肯去 (肯去) 肯去 — Mahīśāsakavinaya 彌沙塞部和醯五分律, Scroll 4 — count: 4
  • 肯入 (肯入) 誰復更肯入逝多林 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 5 — count: 4
  • 傥肯 (儻肯) 儻肯相惠乎 — Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經, Scroll 2 — count: 4
  • 肯信受 (肯信受) 誰肯信受 — Jātaka Stories of the Bodhisattva (Pusa Ben Xing Jing) 菩薩本行經, Scroll 1 — count: 3