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47 Han characters · 24 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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「人皆有不忍人之心。
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Watch recurrence: 人 × 6 之 × 6 不 × 5 忍 × 5 有 × 3 心 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Question in commonFrom a ruler’s quality to public effectsThe star image and the move from 心 to 政 each require an account of how a personal quality reaches others.
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Shared wording
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孟子 · 梁惠王上天下可運老，以及人之老；幼吾幼，以及人之幼。天下可運於掌。
孟子 · 公孫丑上人皆有不所以謂人皆有不忍人之心者，今人乍見孺子將入於井，皆有怵惕惻隱之心，非所以內交於孺子之父母也，非所以
孟子 · 離婁上忍人之政音，不可勝用也；既竭心思焉，繼之以不忍人之政，而仁覆天下矣。
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Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 孟子 · Mencius
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Meng Ke (Mencius) and his followers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1h0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1h0001_003.txt, lines 602–608. MENG 2A06:01; tr. D. C. Lau 1.67
- Version
8decdf43d5a82b779f7950a7782b9a5e09659564- Reuse
- CC BY-SA 4.0. Text extraction and teaching additions share this licence.
- Text policy
- 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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