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Vocabulary

孔 kǒng (N) Surname

孔子 Kǒngzǐ: Confucius

侍 shì (V) to serve, to be in attendance; (Adv) in attendance

於 yú (Prep) a flexible preposition that can serve as: to, at, from, through,
etc. (see Grammar 4.1)

季 jì (N) surname; fourth-born; season

孫 sun (N) grandson

季孫 Jìsun: Compound surname of grandee family of Lǔ 魯 (a
Zhou period state and Confucius’s homeland)

宰 zăi (N) steward, chief-of-staff, manager

通 tong (V) to get through, to reach to [often in sense of communication, as
in gaining access to a ruler]

使 shǐ (CV) to order someone to do something, to make something
happen

假 jǐa (V) to borrow

馬 mă (N) a horse

其 qí *(Adv) suggesting likelihood or desirability of following verb

與 yǔ *(V) to give

乎 hu (Particle) interrogative particle

取 qǔ (V) to take, to appropriate, to commandeer

謂 wèi (V) to refer to as, to characterize

悟 wù (Intransitive V) to become awakened [here, to a truth]

告 gào (V) to tell, to report