Laozi · Daodejing · 第九章
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金玉盈堂，莫之能守
Gold and jade fill the hall, but no one can keep them safe.
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39 Han characters · 31 distinct forms · 9 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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持而盈之，
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What does 之 refer to?
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The gold and jade just mentioned.
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論語 · Recover the object學而時習之論語 · Recover the object未之有也論語 · Recover the object雖曰未學，吾必謂之學矣論語 · Notice an object before its verb其斯之謂與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_009.txt, lines 14–23. LAO 9.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 13 ; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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