linguaholic Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 hi allI got a question\riddle to think about for all the chinese learning people (and even the natives).What does 之子之之之之道，吾亦知之 ？I had to find out in my 文言 class :grin: It's a grammatically correct sentence.I'm looking forward to hearing some suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandandesign Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 hi allI got a question\riddle to think about for all the chinese learning people (and even the natives).What does 之子之之之之道，吾亦知之 ？I had to find out in my 文言 class :grin: It's a grammatically correct sentence.I'm looking forward to hearing some suggestions.I haven't heard of that quote before. Where did you get the quote from? Is it from the movie or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 No, this is real. I am studying ancient Chinese and at that time this would have been a grammatically correct sentence.I will give you a hint:the character 之 at that time had a lot of different meanings. It could be a pronoun, an object, a verb, and even an adjective. So if you know all these meanings of 之, you can reconstruct the meaning of this sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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