挈瓶 qiè píng

qiè píng phrase to raise a bottle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: To raise a small bottle of water from a well: a metaphor for a small amount of knowledge or experience (Guoyu '挈瓶'; Mathews 1931 '挈瓶', p. 110)

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挈瓶小智挈瓶之知

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 10 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 8 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 7 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 24 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 15 Zhen Yuan Era Catalog of Newly Authorized Buddhist Teachings (Zhen Yuan Xin Ding Shijiao Mulu) 貞元新定釋教目錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Dai Zong Chao Zeng Sikong Da Bian Zheng Guang Zhi San Zang He Shang Biao Zhi Ji 代宗朝贈司空大辨正廣智三藏和上表制集 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 The Meaning of the Birth of the Thirty-Seven Worthies in the Diamond Pinnacle Yoga (Jingang Ding Yujia San Shi Qi Zun Chusheng Yi) 金剛頂瑜伽三十七尊出生義 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 锡挈瓶 (錫挈瓶) 師等杖錫挈瓶承風訓導 — Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳, Scroll 8 — count: 4