万物之本 (萬物之本) wàn wù zhī běn

wàn wù zhī běn phrase the source of the myriad things
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Chapter 13 重政 The Importance of Governance in Scroll 5 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 172)

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• Scroll 7 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 1
• Scroll 5 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 1
• Scroll 2 Bian Zheng Lun 辯正論 — count: 1
• Scroll 6 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 1

Collocations

• 广雅万物之本 (廣雅萬物之本) 愚素反廣雅萬物之本曰源玉篇云物之本也禮記曰達於禮樂之源鄭注云源本也說文作厡形聲字也從 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 5 — count: 2
• 万物之本曰 (萬物之本曰) 愚素反廣雅萬物之本曰源玉篇云物之本也禮記曰達於禮樂之源鄭注云源本也說文作厡形聲字也從 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 5 — count: 2