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Chinese
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victorious; able to do; competent enough to
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destroy; spoil; ruin destroy; spoil; ruin; injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; incomplete; disabled |
to go; to leave; to remove
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to kill; to murder; to slaughter
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| trad. (勝殘去殺)
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勝
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殘
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去
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殺
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| simp. (胜残去杀)
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胜
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残
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去
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杀
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Pronunciation
Idiom
勝殘去殺
- to influence the wicked to abandon crime by means of virtue
子曰：「善人為邦百年，亦可以勝殘去殺矣。誠哉是言也！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
子曰：「善人为邦百年，亦可以胜残去杀矣。诚哉是言也！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE
- Zǐyuē: “Shàn rén wèi bāng bǎinián, yì kěyǐ shèngcánqùshā yǐ. Chéng zāi shì yán yě!”
- The Master said, "'If good men were to govern a country in succession for a hundred years, they would be able to transform the violently bad, and dispense with capital punishments.' True indeed is this saying!"