Analects 10.18
The Analects (論語), BOOK X. HEANG TANG 鄉黨第十
色斯擧矣、翔而後集。曰、山梁雌雉、時哉時哉。子路共之、三嗅而作。
1. Seeing the countenance, it instantly rises. It flies round, and by and by settles.
2. The Master said, "There is the hen-pheasant on the hill bridge. At its season! At its season!" Tsze-lu made a motion to it. Thrice it smelt him and then rose.
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 色sècolor, tint, hue, shade; beauty, form; s
- 斯sīthis, thus, such; emphatic particle; use
- 擧jǔraise, lift up; recommend
- 矣yǐparticle of completed action
- 翔xiángto soar, to hover, to glide
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 後hòuafter; behind, rear; descendants
- 集jíto gather, to collect; set, collection
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 山shānmountain, hill, peak
- 梁liángbridge; beam, rafter; surname
- 雌cífemale; feminine; gentle, soft
- 雉zhìpheasant; crenellated wall
- 時shítime, season; period, era, age
- 哉zāifinal exclamatory particle
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 路lùroad, path, street; journey
- 共gòngall, total; together; to share
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 三sānthree
- 嗅xiùto sniff, to smell, to scent
- 作zuòto make; to write, to compose; to act, t
Passages with shared wording
- Mencius 7B.21
- Analects 8.4
- Analects 11.25
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
- Analects 2.1
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