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Meaning of 提頓 outside 書法
I know that 提頓 has a certain meaning in calligraphy. Besides that, however, it appears in the definition of a few classical grammatical particles. For example, the Hanyu Da Cidian remarks on 耶：
助词。...
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How to understand 不知其然而然?
At first glance, this appears to mean
Not knowing （one‘s) being (in) such (a situation), but still being (in) such (a situation).
I searched texts with translations and found this one, containing ...
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How to grammatically analyze 三国之一 in 大都不过三国之一?
It's from 《左传 郑伯克段于焉》. The meaning of the sentence is clear: (the measure of) the wall of big cities cannot exceed one third of (the wall of) the capital.
My question lies in the grammatical structure ...
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Reading older Chinese magazines
I'm at a stage where I'm able to read novels, including the ones by Zhang Ailing, Bai Xianyong and the like. I have now reached the point where I need to start venturing into (somewhat) early 20th ...
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Can the view of non-linear grammar of Classical Chinese be corroborated?
I'm not sure how non-linear grammar is defined. The search results seem to all come back with programming languages.
That being said, I learned it from from a video of a college course by 万献初 Link. ...
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who is the author of 行狀 in the phrase " 其祖考所撰行狀"
Here is a sentence I have a problem with:
再昨招宋炳夏商量，又更審其祖考所撰行狀...
I just want to make sure whether the obituary (行狀) was composed about the deceased grandfather (祖考) or by the grandfather of 宋炳夏?
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What does 大出天下 mean?
It is found in an exhibition of Qin Dynasty held in Xi'an city. The exact words are 秦国35代国君发奋图强，做好了“大出天下”的准备。I have checked the words online for the meaning, but finding no answer.But roughly I think ...
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How to parse 轉所依識?
From the Lankavatara Sutra:
sūkṣmamabhivijñānaparāvṛttikuśalānāṃ
Bodhiruci: 能轉一切微細識
Śikṣānanda: 能以妙慧轉所依識
Suzuki: to cause a revulsion in the depth of the mind fittingly by means of an exquisite ...
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How do I analyze "惟意所欲適" and "惟所欲為"?
"惟意所欲適" is a phrase from the Chinese poem 《有馬示徐無��》:
惟意所欲適，九州可周尋。
I assume that "所欲適" is "所-phrase" and "意" is the subject, then where is the predicate?
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How do you write, "one who does good" in Classical Chinese?
This is a practice from Rouzer Paul's book. It says,
PRACTICE: Put the following into literary Chinese:
One who does good leads the heart (away) from disaster.
I think the predicate is ... 導心於禍, ...
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"以 V 之" as a post-nominal modifier in Classical Chinese
In English, we can say "He bought something to eat," where "to eat" functions like an adjective to "something." I'm wondering whether in Classical Chinese, "以 V 之&...
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將以求吾所大欲也 meaning of 將
What meaning of 將 applies?
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In 孟子there is a sentence where he describes various failings to the king (such as war preparations) and goes on to ask, whether his majesty delights in such. And then ...
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Grammar of 大道無門
On Literature Stack Exchange, someone recently asked a question about the quote 大道無門, which was identified as coming from the collection of Zen koans known as The Gateless Barrier (early thirteenth ...
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也 in classical Chinese as copula
I've been doing my research on 者 and in one of the articles I read I came across a sentence from "Analects":
安见方六七十如五六十而非邦也者。
Glosses for this example are as follows:
where see size six-or-...
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What is the 行 in 行有餘力？
The passage in the analects, whence it came, reads:
子曰：「弟子，入則孝，出則弟，謹而信，
凡愛眾，而親仁。行有餘力，則以學文。」
Very broadly I understand it:
Students and sons at home should be filial, leaving home they should ...
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