Analects 19.14
The Analects (論語), BOOK XIX. TSZE-CHANG 子張第十九
子游曰、喪致乎哀而止。
Tsze-hsia said, "Mourning, having been carried to the utmost degree of grief, should stop with that."
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 游yóuto wander, to travel, to tour, to roam
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 喪sàngmourning; mourn; funeral
- 致zhìto send; to present, to deliver; to caus
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 哀āisad, mournful, pitiful; to pity; to grie
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 止zhǐto stop, to halt; to detain; to desist
Passages with shared wording
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