Analects 10.9
The Analects (論語), BOOK X. HEANG TANG 鄉黨第十
席不正不坐。
If his mat was not straight, he did not sit on it.
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 席xíseat, place; mat; banquet; to take a sea
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 正zhèngstraight, right, proper, correct, just,
- 坐zuòseat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
Passages with shared wording
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