Analects 19.15
The Analects (論語), BOOK XIX. TSZE-CHANG 子張第十九
子游曰、吾友張也、爲難能也、然而未仁。
Tsze-hsia said, "My friend Chang can do things which are hard to be done, but yet he is not perfectly virtuous."
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
- 吾wúI, my, our; to resist, to impede
- 友yǒufriend, companion; fraternity
- 張zhāngto display; to expand, to open; to stret
- 也yěalso, too
- 爲wèido, handle, govern, act; be
- 難nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 能néngcan, may; capable, full of energy
- 然ráncertainly; naturally; suddenly
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 仁rénbenevolent, humane, kind
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 19.18
- Analects 19.16
- Analects 8.5
- Analects 14.17
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Analects 4.26
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