Zhuangzi · 山木第二十
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莊周反入，
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「夫子何為頃閒甚不庭乎？」Locate the unknown ↗「夫子何為頃閒甚不庭乎？」Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗「夫子何為頃閒甚不庭乎？」Recognize a question or an exclamation ↗Watch recurrence: 不 × 2 庭 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 十過第十從而問之桓公從而問之曰：「仲父家居有病，即不幸而不起此病，政安遷之？」
韓非子 · 外儲說右上第三十四夫子何為之矣。周公旦曰：「狂矞，天下賢者也，夫子何為誅之？」太公望曰：「狂矞也議不臣天子，不友諸侯，吾恐其亂法易教也，故以為首誅。
論語 · 憲問篇第十四夫子何為使人於孔子。孔子與之坐而問焉，曰：「夫子何為？」對曰：「夫子欲寡其過而未能也。」使者出。子曰：「使乎！使乎！」
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- 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_020.txt, lines 606–609. ZHUANG 20.8.5 Guo Qingfan 697; Wang Shumin 758; Fang Yong 544; Chen Guying 523
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