逆耳 nì'ěr
nì'ěr
verb
to be unpleasant to hear
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 忠言逆耳 'honest advice, [although] unpleasant to the ear[, induces good conduct]', from Han Feizi's Wai Chu Shuo Zuo Shang (DCP 'Z137'; NCCED '逆耳')
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- Scroll 11 Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏 — count: 6
- Scroll 1 Fa Hua You Yi 法華遊意 — count: 2
- Scroll 3 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 2 , has English translation , has parallel version
- Scroll 12 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 2 , has English translation , has parallel version
- Scroll 9 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 1 Wu Ku Zhang Ju Jing 五苦章句經 — count: 1
- Scroll 19 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 1 , has English translation , has parallel version
- Scroll 7 Zhu Weimojie Jing 注維摩詰經 — count: 1
- Scroll 49 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 1 , has English translation , has parallel version
- Scroll 1 The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 六祖大師法寶壇經 — count: 1 , has English translation
Collocations
- 恶声逆耳 (惡聲逆耳) 惡聲逆耳 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 7
- 逆耳违心 (逆耳違心) 逆耳違心 — Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏, Scroll 1 — count: 6
- 作逆耳 (作逆耳) 勿作逆耳言 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 25 — count: 2
- 逆耳言 (逆耳言) 勿作逆耳言 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 25 — count: 2