柳下惠

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Chinese

favour; kind act (from above)
simp. and trad.
(柳下惠) 		柳下 惠
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Etymology

The Analects:

柳下惠為士師，三黜。人曰：「子未可以去乎？」曰：「直道而事人，焉往而不三黜？枉道而事人，何必去父母之邦？」
柳下惠为士师，三黜。人曰：「子未可以去乎？」曰：「直道而事人，焉往而不三黜？枉道而事人，何必去父母之邦？」
From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, Wiktionary translation
Liǔxiàhuì wéi shìshī, sānchù. Rén yuē: “Zǐ wèi kěyǐ qù hū?” Yuē: “Zhí dào ér shì rén, yān wǎng ér bù sānchù? Wǎng dào ér shì rén, hébì qù fùmǔ zhī bāng?”
Hui of Liuxia was a judge who had been dismissed from office on a number of occasions. People said, "Can't you leave?" He said, "If I render service to people while on the straight (moral) path, how do you know that I will not be dismissed again after going somewhere else? If I render service to people while on a crooked (moral) path, why would I need to leave the homeland of my parents?"

Pronunciation

Proper noun

柳下惠

  1. Liuxia Hui (720 B.C.E. to 621 B.C.E.)

Noun

柳下惠

  1. (figurative) a faithful and upright person (usually refers to husbands)
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