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30 Han characters · 23 distinct forms · 4 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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子貢問於孔子曰：
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子貢問於孔子曰：Locate a relation ↗「君子之所以貴玉而賤珉者，Focus on what an action concerns ↗「君子之所以貴玉而賤珉者，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗「君子之所以貴玉而賤珉者，Read the relationship between clauses ↗「君子之所以貴玉而賤珉者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗Watch recurrence: 子 × 3 之 × 3 玉 × 2 而 × 2 珉 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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老子 · 第六十二章之所以貴有拱之璧以先駟馬，不如坐而進此道。古之所以貴此道者何也？不曰求以得，有罪以免耶，故為天下貴。
孟子 · 公孫丑上子貢問於曰：「惡！是何言也？昔者子貢問於孔子曰：『夫子聖矣乎？』孔子曰：『聖則吾不能，我學不厭而教不倦也。』
韓非子 · 難一第三十六子之所以望絕於上，又使韓子不知其失，吾未得郄子之所以分謗者也。
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- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_030.txt, lines 63–66. XUN 30:4:1, Beida 493, Knoblock 3:257
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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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