綖 yán

1. yán noun cap tassels; string
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '綖'; Guoyu '綖' n; Unihan '綖')
2. yán verb to delay
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '綖' v)
3. yán noun thread; sūtra
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: sūtra, Japanese: en, or: sen; see 經 (BCSD '綖', p. 933; MW 'sūtra'; SH '綖', p. 409; Unihan '綖')

Contained in

• 綖经(綖經) a sutra; a sūtra

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 6 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 12 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Shengman Bao Ku 勝鬘寶窟 — count: 12
• Scroll 1 Dasheng Yi Zhang 大乘義章 — count: 12
• Scroll 52 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 11 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Nāgārjuna’s Treatise of the Five Sciences (Long Shu Wu Ming Lun) 龍樹五明論 — count: 10 , has English translation
• Scroll 2 Nāgārjuna’s Treatise of the Five Sciences (Long Shu Wu Ming Lun) 龍樹五明論 — count: 10 , has English translation
• Scroll 5 Miscellaneous Dhāraṇī Collection 陀羅尼雜集 — count: 8 , has English translation
• Scroll 20 Mahīśāsakavinaya 彌沙塞部和醯五分律 — count: 7 , has English translation
• Scroll 53 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 6 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Ren Wang Hu Guo Boreluomi Jing Shu 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 — count: 6

Collocations

• 綩綖 (綩綖) 綩綖細輭 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 81
• 五色綖 (五色綖) 五色綖香爐五枚取壇香水 — Scripture on the Great Budosnisa Extensive Collection of Dharanis (Da Fo Ding Guang Ju Tuoluoni Jing) 大佛頂廣聚陀羅尼經, Scroll 4 — count: 26
• 白綖 (白綖) 赤白色著白色裙帔白綖絡髆 — Great Peahen Queen of Spells (Mahāmāyūrividyārājñī) 佛說大孔雀呪王經, Scroll 3 — count: 13
• 綖作 (綖作) 絣色綖作緊 — Scripture on the Great Budosnisa Extensive Collection of Dharanis (Da Fo Ding Guang Ju Tuoluoni Jing) 大佛頂廣聚陀羅尼經, Scroll 5 — count: 10
• 綖结 (綖結) 以長綖結作種種鬘 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 32 — count: 9
• 綖系 (綖系) 以呪呪樹以綖繫樹 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 23 — count: 8
• 綖一 (綖一) 用其緋綖一呪一結 — Avalokiteśvaraikādaśamukhadhāraṇīsūtra (Sutra of the Divine Spell of the Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara) 佛說十一面觀世音神呪經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 綖呪 (綖呪) 取五色綖呪二十一遍 — Amoghapāśahṛdayasūtra (Bu Kong Juan Suo Zhou Jing) 不空羂索呪經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 色綖 (色綖) 絣色綖作緊 — Scripture on the Great Budosnisa Extensive Collection of Dharanis (Da Fo Ding Guang Ju Tuoluoni Jing) 大佛頂廣聚陀羅尼經, Scroll 5 — count: 5
• 针綖 (針綖) 其針綖脫 — Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經, Scroll 59 — count: 4