线 (線) xiàn

  1. xiàn noun thread; string; wire
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: 线 is the 430th most common word in the 1985 Beijing Language Insititue frequency wordlist (Ho 2002, p. 197). 线 is used in this sense in both modern and classical Chinese. Middle Chinese: sjenH (Kroll 2015 '線' 1; NCCED '线' 1)
  2. xiàn noun an edge
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (NCCED '线' 7, 8)
  3. xiàn noun a clue; circumstances
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '线' 4; Kroll ‘線’ 2)
  4. xiàn measure word a ray
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Of light (Kroll 2015 '線' 1b)
  5. xiàn noun a line
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Ho 2002, p. 197; NCCED '线' 2)
  6. xiàn noun a route
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Transportation
    Notes: (Ho 2002, p. 197; NCCED '线' 3)
  7. xiàn noun a political or party line
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (NCCED '线' 9)
  8. xiàn noun a secret agent
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Government
    Notes: (NCCED '线' 5)
  9. xiàn measure word a measure word for thread-like things
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
    Notes: (NCCED '线' 10)
  10. xiàn noun thread; sūtra
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: sūtra, Japanese: sen, Tibetan: skud pa (BCSD '線', p. 935; Mahāvyutpatti 'sūtra'; MW 'sūtram'; SH '線', p. 440; Unihan '線')

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 9 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 37 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayakṣudrakavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Za Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶雜事 — count: 17
  • Scroll 1 Usnisa Sutra (Fo Shuo Yi Ji Zun Tuoluoni Jing) 佛說一髻尊陀羅尼經 — count: 15
  • Scroll 64 Mahāratnakūṭasūtra (The Great Treasures Collection Sūtra) 大寶積經 — count: 13 , has English translation
  • Scroll 3 Mahāsahasrapramardanasūtra (Fo Shuo Shouhu Da Qian Guotu Jing) 佛說守護大千國土經 — count: 13
  • Scroll 12 Dharanisamgraha Sutra (Collected Dharanis Sutra) 陀羅尼集經 — count: 12 , has English translation
  • Scroll 15 Commentary on the Vairocana Sutra 大毘盧遮那成佛經疏 — count: 12
  • Scroll 2 Fo Shuo Dasheng Guan Xiang Man Na Luo Jing Zhu E Qu Jing (Mahayana Visualized Mandala for Purification of Evil Destinies Sutra) 佛說大乘觀想曼拏羅淨諸惡趣經 — count: 11
  • Scroll 1 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 10
  • Scroll 9 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 10

Collocations

  • 妙线 (妙線) 如結鬘師取以妙線 — Ding Sheng Wang Yinyuan Jing (Mandhātāvadāna) 頂生王因緣經, Scroll 2 — count: 13
  • 金刚线 (金剛線) 金剛線遍抨 — Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṁgraha (Jingang Ding Yiqie Rulai Zhenshi She Dasheng Xian Zheng Da Jiao Wang Jing) 金剛頂一切如來真實攝大乘現證大教王經, Scroll 2 — count: 13
  • 四线 (四線) 而乃絣四線 — Śriparamādhyamantrākalpakhaṇḍa 佛說最上根本大樂金剛不空三昧大教王經, Scroll 7 — count: 12
  • 金线 (金線) 真金線網彌覆其上 — Fang Guang Da Zhuangyan Jing (Lalitavistara) 方廣大莊嚴經, Scroll 1 — count: 10
  • 絣线 (絣線) 若欲絣線作曼拏羅 — Guhyasamājatantra 佛說一切如來金剛三業最上祕密大教王經, Scroll 5 — count: 8
  • 线作 (線作) 以金剛線作抨量 — Guhyasamayagarbharāja (Fo Shuo Mimi Sanmei Da Jiao Wang Jing) 佛說祕密三昧大教王經, Scroll 1 — count: 7
  • 抨线 (抨線) 智者隨應當抨線 — Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṁgraha (Compendium of True Principles of all Tathāgatas) 佛說一切如來真實攝大乘現證三昧大教王經, Scroll 8 — count: 6
  • 线众 (線眾) 毘琉璃線眾寶之蓋 — Mahāratnakūṭasūtra (The Great Treasures Collection Sūtra) 大寶積經, Scroll 64 — count: 5
  • 银线 (銀線) 銀線寶蓋 — Mahāratnakūṭasūtra (The Great Treasures Collection Sūtra) 大寶積經, Scroll 64 — count: 5
  • 五色线 (五色線) 如彼水精貫五色線分明顯露 — Zhong Xu Mohe Di Jing 佛本行集經, Scroll 3 — count: 5