Book of Odes · Mao witness · 小雅鴻鴈之什第三
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它山之石，可以攻玉
Stones from another mountain can be used to work jade.
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44 Han characters · 36 distinct forms · 11 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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鶴鳴于九皋，
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Watch recurrence: 于 × 3 鶴 × 2 鳴 × 2 九 × 2 在 × 2 之 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Its object is jade and the local image concerns working or shaping it.
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Different contextual sensesA stone for jade, words for meaningThe Shijing line depicts a material useful for working jade. Zhuangzi explicitly treats words as a means toward meaning after trap-and-snare analogies. The connection is editorial: both invite attention to means and ends, but only one develops a stated argument about language.
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論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose使民以時論語 · Connect a modifier to a head禮之用，和為貴論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose為政以德論語 · Identify means, basis, and purpose一言以蔽之Edition, source, and reuse
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- 詩經 · Book of Odes · Mao witness
- Attribution
- Anonymous poems transmitted in the Mao tradition, with received prefaces and ancillary prose; individual attribution is uncertain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1c0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1c0001_018.txt, lines 158–169. SHI 1i4.2
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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.
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