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曰
  • [yuē]
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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

曰 [yuē]
  1. 1. verb [classical Chinese] To say.
  2. 2. verb To be called.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

曰 [yuē]
  1. 1. 动 [文] 说
    国人皆曰可杀
    子曰:"己所不欲,勿施于人。"
  2. 2. 动 叫做
    距圆明园十里,有村曰谢庄。
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Examples

国人皆曰可杀。
The whole country says that the man deserves death. → 国人
《召南·甘棠》曰：““蔽芾甘棠, 勿翦勿伐, 召伯所茇。 蔽芾甘棠, 勿翦勿败, 召伯所憩。 蔽芾甘棠, 勿翦勿拜, 召伯所说。”
A poem in The Book of Odes goes like this: "Do not cut the birchleaf pear tree, for Zhao Gong once rested under it." → 蔽芾
国人皆曰可杀 → 曰

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