巧言令色 qiǎo yán lìng sè

qiǎo yán lìng sè set phrase to flatter with artful speech and ingratiating manners
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: Quote: from Book 1 學而 Xue Er of the 論語 “Analects of Confucius” (Legge 1861, vol. 1, Confucian Analects, p. 3; GHC '巧言令色'; Guoyu '巧言令色'; Mathews 1931 '巧言令色鮮矣仁', p. 101; NCCED '巧言令色')

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巧言令色鲜矣仁

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 8 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 10 Lushan Lian Zong Bao Jian 廬山蓮宗寶鑑 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Treasured Instructions of Chan Temples (Chanlin Baoxun) 禪林寶訓 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 5 Fahua Xuan Yi Shi Qian 法華玄義釋籤 — count: 1
  • Scroll 21 Da Ban Niepan Jing Shu 大般涅槃經疏 — count: 1
  • Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 1
  • Scroll 26 Da Ban Niepan Jing Shu 大般涅槃經疏 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 媚巧言令色 (媚巧言令色) 識者甘譚詐媚巧言令色牽人作惡 — Fahua Xuan Yi Shi Qian 法華玄義釋籤, Scroll 5 — count: 2