Laozi · Daodejing · 第四章
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吾不知誰之子
I do not know whose child it is.
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42 Han characters · 32 distinct forms · 9 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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道沖而用之或不盈。
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What noun does 誰之 modify?
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子.
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論語 · Track speakers and addressees吾日三省吾身論語 · Connect a modifier to a head禮之用，和為貴論語 · Locate the unknown其斯之謂與論語 · Locate the unknown不敬，何以別乎Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 老子 · Laozi · Daodejing
- Attribution
- Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0057 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0057_004.txt, lines 14–22. LAO 4.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 7; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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