竿头 (竿頭) gāntóu

gāntóu noun bamboo pole's uppermost tip
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Figuratively, acme (CC-CEDICT '竿頭')

Also contained in

百尺竿头百尺竿头,更尽一步

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 10 Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 景德傳燈錄 — count: 4 , has English translation
  • Scroll 4 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 2
  • Scroll 1 Wumen's Gate 無門關 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • 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: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 14 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
  • Scroll 9 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 2
  • Scroll 100 Zong Jing Lu 宗鏡錄 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 56 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
  • 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: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 9 The Blue Cliff Record (Biyanlu) 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 — count: 2 , has English translation

Collocations

  • 竿头丝线 (竿頭絲線) 竿頭絲線從君弄 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 1 — count: 10
  • 竿头进步 (竿頭進步) 竿頭進步且道此事畢竟如何委悉 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 10 — count: 5
  • 百丈竿头 (百丈竿頭) 百丈竿頭 — Zong Jing Lu 宗鏡錄, Scroll 100 — count: 5
  • 竿头上 (竿頭上) 於竿頭上結絓鴆 — Guhya Sutra (Ruixiye Jing) 蕤呬耶經, Scroll 2 — count: 3
  • 幡竿头 (幡竿頭) 幡竿頭上煎 — Quotations from Abbot Yangqi Fanghui 楊岐方會和尚語錄, Scroll 1 — count: 2
  • 置竿头 (置竿頭) 又法以像張置竿頭 — Amoghapāśakalparājasūtra (Bu Kong Juan Suo Shenbian Zhenyan Jing) 不空羂索神變真言經, Scroll 29 — count: 2
  • 竿头画 (竿頭畫) 爾雅有鈴曰旂郭璞曰懸鈴於竿頭畫蛟龍於旂上也周禮蛟龍為旂是也 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 56 — count: 2
  • 上竿头 (上竿頭) 斷送上竿頭 — 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, Scroll 1 — count: 2