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之子之之之之道,吾亦知之。


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hi all

I 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.

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hi all

I 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?

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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.

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