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Japanese
Pronunciation
Adverb
斯く • (kaku)
- (archaic) like this, in this way, so, thus
- 『ツァラトゥストラはかく語りき』
- “Tsaratusutora wa kaku katariki”
- Thus Spake Zarathustra
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- 道を聞くに先後有り、術業に専攻有り、是くのごときのみ。
- Michi o kiku ni sengo ari, jutsugyō ni senkō ari, kaku no gotoki nomi.
- People hear the way earlier or later than others, and they specialise in different crafts and trades; that’s all there is to it. (literally, “it is merely like this”)
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