不亦说乎

不亦說乎

bú yì yuè hū

quotation

Meanings

HSK 7-9

“学而时习之，不亦说乎”是《论语》的第一句话。

" Xué ér shí xí zhī, bú yì yuè hū " shì 《 Lúnyǔ 》 de dìyī jù huà.

'To learn, and to practice it in due time, is that not a pleasure?' is the first line of the Analects.

mistakes

Here 说 is read yuè, not shuō: it is an old way of writing 悦 'pleased'. Reading it shuō is a classic slip, even for native speakers.

grammar

不亦…乎 is a classical rhetorical question, 'is it not also…?', that expects the answer yes. The same opening passage has two more: 不亦乐乎 and 不亦君子乎.

不 bù

亦 yì

说 shuō

乎 hū