Analects 9.9
The Analects (論語), BOOK IX. TSZE HAN 子罕第九
子見齊衰者、冕衣裳者、與瞽者、見之、雖少必作、過之必趨。
When the Master saw a person in a mourning dress, or any one with the cap and upper and lower garments of full dress, or a blind person, on observing them approaching, though they were younger than himself, he would rise up, and if he had to pass by them, he would do so hastily.
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
- 見jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 齊qíeven, uniform, of equal length
- 衰shuāiweak, feeble; to decline, to falter
- 者zhěthat which; they who; those who
- 冕miǎncrown; ceremonial cap
- 衣yīcloth; clothes, apparel; dress, coat
- 裳shangskirt, petticoat; beautiful
- 與yǔand; with; to; for; to give, to grant
- 瞽gǔblind, stupid; a blind musician
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 雖suīalthough, even though
- 少shǎofew, little; less; inadequate
- 必bìsurely, certainly; must; will
- 作zuòto make; to write, to compose; to act, t
- 過guòpass; to go across, to pass through
- 趨qūto hurry, to hasten; to approach, to be
Passages with shared wording
- Analects 10.16
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Analects 3.24
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 63
- Art of War 6.5
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