Laozi · Daodejing · 第十章
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能無離乎
Can you avoid separation?
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49 Han characters · 35 distinct forms · 12 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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戴營魄抱一，
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Final 乎, together with the interrogative context.
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論語 · Locate the unknown其斯之謂與論語 · Recognize a question or an exclamation不敬，何以別乎論語 · Recognize a question or an exclamation曾是以為孝乎孟子 · Locate the unknown何必曰利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_010.txt, lines 14–26. LAO 10.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 13 ; here tr. Karlgren 1975
- Version
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- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
- Teaching
- 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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