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Vocabulary

孟 mèng (Noun) a surname.

子 zǐ (N) child, son, youth; an honorific form of address, equivalent to,
“You, Sir”; an honorific form of reference: “the Master”

孟子 Mèngzǐ: Mencius, Meng Ke 軻 (c. 380 - 300 B.C.)

曰 yue (Verb) to say. Yue precedes direct quotations and is the most
common quotative, like English “said” or Modern Chinese [MC]
shuo 說.

仁 rén (N) a comprehensive Confucian ethical virtue: “humaneness”;
(Adj/SV) humane

N.B. (nota bene, note well): SV = “Stative Verb”: an adjectival
form that behaves as though it embeds the verb “to be”; e.g.: 子仁:
“The Master [is] humane.”

人 rén (N) person; humankind

心 xin (N) the heart; the mind; the “heart-mind”

也 yĕ (Particle) yĕ is affixed to the close of an equational sentence to
indicate that the sentence has the semantic form: “X is Y”; yĕ also
appears in mid-sentence, where its function as a stressed pause
often indicates the close of a topic phrase (a sentence-opening
phrase that might be thought of as preceded by an “as for” and
followed by a predicate-comment). See Grammar and Notes 1.1
(below).

義 yì (N) righteousness; (SV) right; fitting; proper

路 lù (N) road

舍 shĕ (V) loan for 捨: to put aside; discard [舍 shè: (N) dwelling, hut;
(V) to dwell]

其 qí (Pronoun) (1) a subordinating pronoun, comparable to “its; his;
her”; (2) a simple pronoun “resuming” (referring anew to) a recent
antecedent, and thus functionally equivalent to “he/she/it.”