- inevitable; certain; necessity
- see 仿傚|仿效[fang3 xiao4]
- sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint
- (bound form) equal; uniform; even; (literary) without exception; all
- to belong to; affiliated to; to result in sth; to incline towards
- 废 fèi: 废 fei4: to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste废 fèi: 废 fei4: disabled
- always; throughout (a period of time); (of) all-time
- complex (psychology)
- to encourage oneself
- that kind; that sort
- 挽 wǎn: 挽 wan3: to pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up; to coil; to carry on the arm; to lament the dead; (fig.) to pull against; to recover挽 wǎn: 挽 wan3: to draw (a cart); to lament the dead
- perplexed; at a loss
- 给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide
- common people; laity (i.e. not priests)
- to set up; to establish
- code of conduct; standard of conduct
- norm; standard; specification; regulation; rule; within the rules; to fix rules; to regulate; to specify
- ultimate; final
- purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
- exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- 礼 lǐ: 礼 li3: gift; rite; ceremony; CL:份[fen4]; propriety; etiquette; courtesy礼 Lǐ: 礼 Li3: surname Li; abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Rites
- to hope; a hope; a wish
- to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate; to rectify
- to purify
- action; conduct; behavior; activity
- to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated
- in accordance with; to agree with; to conform to; to meet (a requirement); (physics) coincidence
- ethics
- standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success)
- order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- 处 chǔ: 处 chu3: to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish处 chù: 处 chu4: (bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect; (bound form) office; department; bureau; classifier for locations: spot, point
- rites and music are in ruins (idiom); fig. society in total disarray; cf. 禮樂|礼乐[li3 yue4]
- Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
- rather; quite
- similar; alike
- repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- to state; to assert
- to advocate; to stand for; view; position; stand; proposition; viewpoint; assertion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom); to take great pains; to be very patient
- 尚书 shàng shū: 尚书 shang4 shu1: high official; government minister尚书 Shàng shū: 尚书 Shang4 shu1: same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of History
- The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
- Rites and Ceremonies, part of the Confucian Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]
- the Rites of Zhou (in Confucianism)
- Classic of Rites
- the classics; scriptures; classical; classic (example, case etc); typical
- reference material (used in scholarly study)