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37 Han characters · 32 distinct forms · 5 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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孫叔敖曰：
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『吾三相楚而心瘉卑，Track speakers and addressees ↗『吾三相楚而心瘉卑，Read the relationship between clauses ↗是以不得罪於楚之士民也。』Follow an explicit inference ↗是以不得罪於楚之士民也。』Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗是以不得罪於楚之士民也。』Keep different negatives apart ↗是以不得罪於楚之士民也。』Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 而 × 3 瘉 × 3 楚 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孟子 · 離婁上不得罪於孟子曰：「為政不難，不得罪於巨室。巨室之所慕，一國慕之；一國之所慕，天下慕之；故沛然德教溢乎四海。」
莊子 · 天運第十四不得罪於仰。彼，人之所引，非引人也，故俯仰而不得罪於人。
莊子 · 田子方第二十一孫叔敖曰肩吾問於孫叔敖曰：「子三為令尹而不榮華，三去之而无憂色。吾始也疑子，今視子之鼻閒栩栩然，子之用心獨奈
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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_032.txt, lines 175–179. XUN 32:4:2, Beida 509, Knoblock 3:267
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