Analects 9.8
The Analects (論語), BOOK IX. TSZE HAN 子罕第九
子曰、鳳鳥不至、河不出圖、吾已矣乎。
The Master said, "The fang bird does not come; the river sends forth no map:—it is all over with me!"
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
- 鳳fèngmale phoenix; symbol of joy
- 鳥niǎobird
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 至zhìreach, arrive; very, extremely
- 河hériver, stream; the Yellow river
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 圖túdiagram, chart, map, picture; to plan
- 吾wúI, my, our; to resist, to impede
- 已yǐalready; finished; to stop; then, afterw
- 矣yǐparticle of completed action
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
Passages with shared wording
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 55
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Analects 18.5
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
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