invention of the hair brush, and is now used either of a section or of a single leaf of a book. [Pien flat is composed of 戶 hu the leaf of a door (line 22), and 册 ts'ê the tablets of authority granted to the feudal nobles, formerly written with five verticals, here regarded as tablets bearing inscriptions such as are seen at the entrance to a public office. It originally meant a public office, which idea can be readily deduced from gate and tablets as above. Of course there must have been a sound pien meaning flat long before there was a character meaning office; so that the gate-and-tablets must have been called pien because of flatness, rather than that pien could have extended its meaning from gates and tablets to anything flat.]
| 117. | 群 | 弟 | 子 | In this, the various disciples | |
| Ch'ün2 | ti4 | tzŭ3 | |||
| Flock | younger-brother | child |
Ch'ün is composed of 羊 yang sheep as radical, with 君 chün prince (line 54) as phonetic. It is the common term for a flock of sheep, a crowd of people, etc.
Ti see line 100.
Tzŭ see line 11. Ti tzŭ is a compound term meaning disciples. [Eitel strangely translates, "Wherein, however, the whole of the disciples and philosophers." But ch'ün cannot be pressed to mean whole (= all), and tzŭ has here nothing to do with philosophers. Père Zottoli too has "omnes discipuli."]
| 118. | 記 | 善 | 言 | have recorded the wise sayings of Confucius. | |
| Chi4 | shan4 | yen2 | |||
| Record | virtuous | words |
Chi is composed of 言 yen words as radical with 己 i already (line 328) as phonetic. It originally meant to state, and now means to record, to remember.
