Analects 6.11
The Analects (論語), BOOK VI. YUNG YEY 雍也第六
子謂子夏曰、女爲君子儒、無爲小人儒。
The Master said to Tsze-hsia, "Do you be a scholar after the style of the superior man, and not after that of the mean man."
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
- 謂wèito call, to say, to tell; name, title; m
- 夏xiàsummer; the Xia or Hsia dynasty
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 女nǚwoman, girl; female
- 爲wèido, handle, govern, act; be
- 君jūnsovereign, ruler, prince, monarch, chief
- 儒rúConfucian scholar
- 無wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 小xiǎosmall, tiny, insignificant
- 人rénman, person; people
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 17.10
- Analects 15.4
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
- Analects 11.22
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Analects 5.8
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