Zhuangzi · 逍遙遊第一
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名者，實之賓也
Name is the guest of reality.
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34 Han characters · 23 distinct forms · 8 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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「子治天下，
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賓.
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Different contextual sensesNames in government and reputation in refusalThe shared graph 名 connects passages whose speakers are solving different problems.
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荀子 · 彊國篇第十六子治天下何？曰：節威反文，案用夫端誠信全之君子治天下焉，因與之參國政，正是非，治曲直，（而）聽咸陽，順者錯之，不順者而後誅之，若是，則兵
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論語 · Separate the topic from the comment夫子至於是邦也論語 · Connect a modifier to a head禮之用，和為貴論語 · Separate the topic from the comment回也不愚論語 · Recognize a nominal predicate所損益，可知也Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 莊子 · Zhuangzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Zhuang Zhou; the received collection includes multiple voices and layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0126 · base edition CHANT
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0126_001.txt, lines 210–217. ZHUANG 1.2.3; Guo Qingfan 24; Wang Shumin 22; Fang Yong 18; Chen Guying 18
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