天子无戏言 (天子無戲言) tiānzǐ wú xì yán

tiānzǐ wú xì yán phrase the emperor does not play with words
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Book 1 of 說苑 Garden of Eloquence (Liu Xiang and Henry 2021, pp. 22-23)

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 49 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 1
• Scroll 31 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 1
• Scroll 32 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 1
• Scroll 1 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 1
• Scroll 2 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 1

Collocations

• 云天子无戏言 (雲天子無戲言) 義反考聲云戲弄也史記云天子無戲言也論語云前言戲之耳毛詩傳云戲逸豫也尒雅云謔浪笑戲 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 31 — count: 2