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Chinese
Etymology
Confusing the character 魯 with 魚, and 亥 with 豕 in ancient scripts.
書字，人知之，猶尚寫之多誤。故諺曰，「書三寫，魚成魯，虛成虎，」此之謂也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
书字，人知之，犹尚写之多误。故谚曰，「书三写，鱼成鲁，虚成虎，」此之谓也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Ge Hong, c. 4th century, Baopuzi (《抱朴子》)
- Shū zì, rén zhī zhī, yóu shàng xiě zhī duō wù. Gù yàn yuē, “shū sān xiě, yú chéng lǔ, xū chéng hǔ,” cǐ zhī wèi yě.
- Written characters, they are widely known to people, yet errors abound in written texts. Referring to this, an idiom goes: “After many rounds of copying, a fish (魚) gets foolhardy (魯), but the empty (虛) one becomes a tiger (虎).”
子夏之晉，過衛，有讀史記者曰：「晉師三豕涉河。」子夏曰：「非也，是己亥也。夫『己』與『三』相近，『豕』與『亥』相似。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
子夏之晋，过卫，有读史记者曰：「晋师三豕涉河。」子夏曰：「非也，是己亥也。夫『己』与『三』相近，『豕』与『亥』相似。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]- From: Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE
- Zǐ Xià zhī jìn, guò wèi, yǒu dú shǐjì zhě yuē: “Jìn shī sān shǐ shè hé.” Zǐ Xià yuē: “Fēi yě, shì jǐhài yě. Fú ‘jǐ’ yǔ ‘sān’ xiāngjìn, ‘shǐ’ yǔ ‘hài’ xiāngsì.”
- When Zi Xia passed through Wey on his way to Jin, he met someone reading historical books aloud as “three pigs of the Jin army crossed the Yellow River”. Zixia said, “No, it was ‘on the day of Ji-Hai’. 己 (earth in sexagenary cycle) and 三 (three) look alike, so as 豕 (pig) and 亥 (pig in sexagenary cycle).”
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魯魚亥豕
- typographical errors caused by similar-looking characters
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