pronoun #7,813

Meanings

  1. 1 I; me (literary/classical Chinese)

Examples

Wú rì sān xǐng wú shēn.
I examine myself three times a day. (Confucius)
Wú ài wú shī, wú gèng ài zhēnlǐ.
I love my teacher, but I love truth more. (Aristotle quote)

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is the classical Chinese equivalent of . You'll see it in ancient texts, quotes from Confucius, and literary writing. In modern speech it sounds archaic or deliberately formal/poetic.
grammar
In classical Chinese, was typically used as subject ('I') while could be object ('me'). This distinction disappeared in modern Chinese where covers both.

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