Laozi · Daodejing · 第六章
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玄牝之門
The gate of the mysterious female.
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25 Han characters · 18 distinct forms · 6 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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谷神不死，
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門.
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論語 · Connect a modifier to a head禮之用，和為貴孟子 · Connect a modifier to a head鄰國之民不加少，寡人之民不加多孟子 · Connect a modifier to a head養生喪死無憾，王道之始也孟子 · Connect a modifier to a head申之以孝悌之義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_006.txt, lines 14–19. LAO 6.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 9 ; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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- zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. English renderings are excerpt-level reading aids, not a full published translation. Editorial pilot · not independently reviewed.
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