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彼を知り己を知れば、百戦殆からず彼を知り己を知れば百戦殆からず [sK]
かれをしりおのれをしれば、ひゃくせんあやうからず
1. [exp] [proverb]
《from Sun Tzu's The Art of War》
▶ if you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated
▶ know your enemy



History:
7. A 2024-03-27 01:10:04  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Noting that kanjipedia and jitenon have the う okurigana, but daijr/s and koj do not. Odd.

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│ 百戦殆からず  │ 255 │
│ 百戦殆うからず │ 577 │
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6. A 2024-03-26 19:00:21  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Kanjipedia uses a comma in this expression, but daijr/s, koj, and jitenon do not.
  Comments:
https://github.com/JMdictProject/JMdictIssues/issues/122
Adding commas to readings to align with kanji forms.
  Diff:
@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>彼を知り己を知れば百戦殆からず</keb>
+<keb>彼を知り己を知れば、百戦殆からず</keb>
@@ -8 +8,2 @@
-<keb>彼を知り己を知れば、百戦殆からず</keb>
+<keb>彼を知り己を知れば百戦殆からず</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11 +12 @@
-<reb>かれをしりおのれをしればひゃくせんあやうからず</reb>
+<reb>かれをしりおのれをしれば、ひゃくせんあやうからず</reb>
5. A 2023-01-18 11:54:48  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>彼を知り己を知れば、百戦殆からず</keb>
4. A 2018-05-21 12:52:01  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -14 +14,2 @@
-<gloss>If you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated</gloss>
+<gloss>if you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated</gloss>
+<gloss>know your enemy</gloss>
3. A 2014-12-09 04:34:36  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu#Misattributed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War#Chinese
  Comments:
that english gloss does not derive from sun tzu (and if it did, it wouldn't correspond to this quote, which is simply the basis of the maxim "know your enemy")
  Diff:
@@ -14,2 +14 @@
-<gloss>keep your friends close but your enemies closer</gloss>
-<gloss g_type="lit">If you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated</gloss>
+<gloss>If you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated</gloss>
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