I CHING LEXICON de2 R#:60 R: Strokes:8,11 Wade/Giles:tê2 Freq:58 (prtcl.) to get, gain, or attain. Read dei3 : ought to, must. de2er2 can on the other hand, can but Fenn: Also read tei3 : must, ought, should. Karlgren: #980, jian4 to see + cun4 to grab (hand with thumb in seal writing) = to obtain; enlarged by chi4. Legge: to get, with an objective following... without an objective, getting, anything as gain to be got... the auxilliary can, often followed by er2. Montanaro: adverb: have to, must; particle: which, together with a resultative complement, forms a potential resultative compound; verb:get. Wilder: #78, notes that was added to this character late, and is superfluous ; also notes that in the seal is now written dan4. H1L6, COTD, zhi1 de2 er2 bu4 zhi1sang4 literally, "know gain but not know loss" Blofeld: "knows how to advance but not how to retreat" Wilhelm: "knows something about winning but nothing about losing." H1 L6 WY H2 H2 COTD H2 WY H3 L1 Image H6 COTD H9 COTD H11 L2 H11 L2 Image

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