小人 xiǎorén
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xiǎorén
noun
a vulgar person; a person of little virtue; xiaoren
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Literally, 小人 means 'a small man' but in Confucian thought it means the opposite of 君子 'a benevolent person.' (Yao 2000, p. 214) For example, 君子周而不比，小人比而不周。 'The superior man [junzi] is catholic [broad-minded] and not partisan. The mean man [xiaoren] is partisan and not catholic [broad-minded.' (Lunyu 2:14, trans. by Legge 1861; CC-CEDICT '小人'; Guoyu '小人' 3) -
xiǎorén
noun
a short person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In contrast to a 巨人 giant (Guoyu '小人' 1) -
xiǎorén
noun
a commoner
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '小人'; Guoyu '小人' 2) -
xiǎorén
pronoun
I; me
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A humble self reference (CC-CEDICT '小人'; Guoyu '小人' 4)
Also contained in
小人物 、 大人不记小人过 、 小人得志 、 远小人 、 小人精 、 势利小人 、 以小人之心，度君子之腹 、 小人书 、 君子坦荡荡，小人长戚戚
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 6 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 12
- Scroll 3 Treasured Instructions of Chan Temples (Chanlin Baoxun) 禪林寶訓 — count: 9
- Scroll 16 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 9
- Scroll 9 Long Shu Zeng Guang Jing Tu Wen 龍舒增廣淨土文 — count: 8
- Scroll 14 Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論 — count: 7 , has English translation
- Scroll 16 Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論 — count: 7
- Scroll 5 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 7
- Scroll 7 Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏 — count: 7
- Scroll 2 Treasured Instructions of Chan Temples (Chanlin Baoxun) 禪林寶訓 — count: 6
- Scroll 7 Fa Hua Xuan Lun 法華玄論 — count: 6
Collocations
- 小人说 (小人說) 今所明者前對小人說 — Fa Hua Xuan Lun 法華玄論, Scroll 2 — count: 7
- 化小人 (化小人) 又佛上自說則是大人化小人 — Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏, Scroll 5 — count: 6
- 小人法 (小人法) 是小人法 — Sarvāstivādavinayavibhāṣā (Sapoduopinipiposha) 薩婆多毘尼毘婆沙, Scroll 6 — count: 5
- 学小人 (學小人) 傍為發軫學小人 — Miaofa Lianhua Jing Wen Ju 妙法蓮華經文句, Scroll 7 — count: 4
- 取小人 (取小人) 大取小人說 — Fa Hua Xuan Lun 法華玄論, Scroll 7 — count: 3
- 小人爱 (小人愛) 小人愛則妨敬 — Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論, Scroll 16 — count: 2
- 小人不堪 (小人不堪) 小人不堪 — Satyasiddhiśāstra (Cheng Shi Lun / Treatise of Establishing Reality) 成實論, Scroll 12 — count: 2
- 工师小人 (工師小人) 工師小人 — Mahīśāsakavinaya 彌沙塞部和醯五分律, Scroll 6 — count: 2
- 知小人 (知小人) 知小人無智 — Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論, Scroll 14 — count: 2
- 小人名为 (小人名為) 人說於大法以化小人名為自教 — Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏, Scroll 7 — count: 2