不第 bùdì

bùdì verb to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不第')

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 8 Shen Seng Chuan 神僧傳 — count: 2
  • Scroll 3 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 2
  • Scroll 1 Da Hui Pu Jue Chan Shi Zong Men Wu Ku 大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 — count: 1
  • Scroll 42 A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 3 Ren Wang Jing Shu 仁王經疏 — count: 1
  • Scroll 2 The Sutra of Mañjuśrī’s Questions (Wenshushili Wen Jing) 文殊師利問經 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Treatise on the Three Laws 三法度論 — count: 1
  • Scroll 35 Abhidharmakośaśāstrakārikāvibhāṣya (Apidamo Cang Xian Zong Lun) 阿毘達磨藏顯宗論 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Tang Da Jian Fu Si Gu Si Zhu Fan Jing Dade Fa Zang Heshang Chuan 唐大薦福寺故寺主翻經大德法藏和尚傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 4 Fahua Wen Ju Ji 法華文句記 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 不第一 (不第一) 不第一眾生 — The Sutra of Mañjuśrī’s Questions (Wenshushili Wen Jing) 文殊師利問經, Scroll 2 — count: 3
  • 进士不第 (進士不第) 三舉進士不第 — A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀, Scroll 42 — count: 2
  • 举不第 (舉不第) 屢舉不第 — Ming Biographies of Eminent Monks 大明高僧傳, Scroll 8 — count: 2