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162. and distinguish the good from the bad.
Pieh2 shan4 o4
Separate good bad


Pieh is composed of 刀 tao knife (in combination) on the right as radical, and an obsolete word which meant to scrape or cut a man's flesh from his bones. The latter is the phonetic of 過 kuo (line 18) less 口 k'ou mouth, and is 骨 ku bones less 肉 (月 in combination) jou flesh; it has nothing to do with 另 ling separate, as might be inferred from the way in which it is now written. [An old form of pieh was two 八 pa (line 88), and the modern 八 pa eight is now written in official documents 捌.]

Shan see line 2.

O see line 83.


163. The three commentaries upon the above
San1 chuan4 chê3
Three record one


San see title.

Chuan is composed of 人 jen man as radical, and 專 chuan (line 8) as phonetic, and means a chronicle, a biography. See line 269. Read ch'uan2, it means to transmit, to deliver as orders, to summon (line 213).

Chê see line 49.


164. include that of Kung-yang,
Yu3 kung1 yang2
Have kung yang


Yu see line 14.

Kung see line 147.

Yang see line 77. [Kung-yang is here a double surname, being