Analects 3.5
The Analects (論語), BOOK III. PA YIH 八佾第三
子曰、夷狄之有君、不如諸夏之亡也。
The Master said, "The rude tribes of the east and north have their princes, and are not like the States of our great land which are without them."
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
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 夷yíancient barbarian tribes
- 狄díbarbarians; a tribe from northern China;
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 君jūnsovereign, ruler, prince, monarch, chief
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 如rúas, as if, like, such as, supposing
- 諸zhūall, many, various; surname
- 夏xiàsummer; the Xia or Hsia dynasty
- 亡wángdeath, destruction; to lose; to perish
- 也yěalso, too
Passages with shared wording
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 14
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Analects 13.19
- Mencius 3B.9
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 14
- Analects 17.16
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