| Chinese Text Project |
| 典 U+5178 |  Seal script |  Jinwen |  Jiaguwen |  Jianbo | 𥮏 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 八+ 6 strokes = 8 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.288#37 Kangxi: p.128#02 Cihai: p.162r2c01 GSR: 476.a Hanyu: v1,p0247#01 |
| Composition: | Top: 曲, bottom: 八. Component of: 倎 𨹻 𠗘 𠩷 𡥳 唺 婰 㙉 捵 㥏 淟 猠 琠 𬒿 𣇺 腆 觍 椣 𧹖 敟 [More] |
| Mandarin: | diǎn ㄉㄧㄢˇ |
| Cantonese: | din2 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *děn děn |
| Shuowen: | 《丌部》典：五帝之書也。从冊在丌上，尊閣之也。莊都說，典，大冊也。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·上聲·銑·典》典：主也，常也，法也，經也，又姓魏志有典韋。多殄切，五。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·八部·六》典：〔古文〕𥮏《唐韻》《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》𠀤多殄切，顚上聲。《說文》典，五帝之書也。从𠕁在丌上，尊閣之也。《爾雅·釋言》典，經也。《廣韻》法也。《書·舜典》愼𡽪五典。《註》五典，五常也。《周禮·天官·大宰之職》掌建邦之六典。《秋官·大司𡨥》掌建邦之三典。《疏》常經卽是法式。又《周語》召公曰：瞽獻典。《註》典，樂典也。又典守，猶主也。《周禮·春官》典同。《又》典瑞。《戰國策》我典主東地。《註》典猶職典也。又姓。《魏志》有典韋。又《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》𠀤徒典切，音殄。《正韻》堅潤貌。《周禮·冬官考工記》是故輈欲頎典。《註》頎讀爲懇。典，堅韌貌。《韻會》一曰車轅束。 |
| Fanqie: | 多殄 (《廣韻·上聲·銑·典》) |
| Unihan definition: | law, canon; documentation; classic, scripture |
Example usage
| 《孟子·告子下》: | 不百里，不足以守宗廟之典籍。 |
| Without 100 li, he would not have sufficient wherewith to observe the statutes kept in his ancestral temple. | |
| 《禮記·曲禮下》: | 天子建天官，先六大：曰大宰、大宗、大史、大祝、大士、大卜，典司六典。 |
| The son of Heaven appoints the officers of Heaven's institution, the precedence among them belonging to the six grandees: the Grand-governor; the Grand-minister of the ancestral temple; the Grand-historiographer; the Grand-minister of prayers; the Grand-minister of justice; and the Grand-divine. These are the guardians and superintendents of the six departments of the statutes. | |
| 《揚子法言》: | 言不文，典謨不作經。 |
| If their speech were not refined, the Yaodian and Gao Yao mo could not have become classics. | |
| 《墨子·尚賢中》: | 乃名三后，恤功於民，伯夷降典，哲民維刑。 |
| Thereupon three chiefs were commissioned to care for and consolate the people: (1) Bo Yi delivered the laws and statutes and taught therewith the people. | |
| 《莊子·田子方》: | 典洗無更，偏令無出。 |
| The statutes and laws were not changed by him; not a one-sided order (of his own) was issued. | |
| 《史記·五帝本紀》: | 黃帝者，少典之子，姓公孫，名曰軒轅。 |
| Huangdi (Yellow emperor) was the son of Shaodian. His surname was Gongsun, and his prename Xuanyuan. | |
| 《詩經·蕩》: | 雖無老成人、尚有典刑。 |
| Although you have not old experienced men, There are still the ancient statutes and laws. | |
| 《尚書·皋陶謨》: | 天敘有典，勑我五典五惇哉！ |
| From Heaven are the (social) relationships with their several duties; we are charged with (the enforcement of) those five duties - and lo! we have the five courses of honourable conduct. | |
| 《周易·繫辭下》: | 易之為書也不可遠，為道也屢遷，變動不居，周流六虛，上下无常，剛柔相易，不可為典要，唯變所適，其出入以度，外內使知懼，又明於憂患與故，无有師保，如臨父母，初率其辭，而揆其方，既有典常，苟非其人，道不虛行。 |
| The Yi is a book which should not be let slip from the mind. Its method (of teaching) is marked by the frequent changing (of its lines). They change and move without staying (in one place), flowing about into any one of the six places of the hexagram. They ascend and descend, ever inconstant. The strong and the weak lines change places, so that an invariable and compendious rule cannot be derived from them; - it must vary as their changes indicate. The goings forth and comings in (of the lines) are according to rule and measure. (People) learn from them in external and internal affairs to stand in awe. (The book), moreover, makes plain the nature of anxieties and calamities, and the causes of them. Though (its students) have neither master nor guardian, it is as if their parents drew near to them. Beginning with taking note of its explanations, we reason out the principles to which they point. We thus find out that it does supply a constant and standard rule. But if there be not the Proper men (to carry this out), the course cannot be pursued without them. | |
| 《荀子·禮論》: | 其理誠大矣，擅作典制辟陋之說入焉而喪。 |
| 《說苑·脩文》: | 天子五年一巡狩，歲二月東巡狩，至於東嶽，柴而望祀山川，見諸侯，問百年者，命太師陳詩以觀民風，命市納賈以觀民之所好惡，志淫好僻者，命典禮，考時月定日，同律禮樂制度衣服正之。 |
| 《春秋繁露·郊語》: | 天下福若無可怪者，然所以久弗行者，非灼灼見其當而故弗行也，典禮之官常嫌疑，莫能昭昭明其當也。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷六》: | 故皆興仁義而賤財利，賤財利則不爭，不爭則強不陵弱，眾不暴寡，是君之所以象典刑而民莫犯法，民莫犯法，而亂斯止矣。 |
| 《大戴禮記·保傅》: | 天子不論先聖王之德，不知國君畜民之道，不見禮義之正，不察應事之禮，不博古之典傳，不閑於威儀之數，詩書禮樂無經，學業不法，凡是其屬，太師之任也。 |
| 《白虎通德論》: | 《別名記》曰：司徒典民，司空主地，司馬順天。 |
| 《新書·輔佐》: | 典方，典容儀以掌諸侯遠方之君，譔之班爵列位軌伍之約，朝覲宗遇會同享聘貢職之數，辨其民人之眾寡，政之治亂，率意道順，僻淫犯禁之差第。 |
| 《新序·善謀》: | 常人安於所習，學者溺於所聞，此兩者所以居官而守法也，非所與論於典法之外也。 |
| 《中論·爵祿》: | 昔周公相王室以君天下，聖德昭聞，王勛弘大，成王封以少昊之墟，地方七百里，錫之山川土田，附庸備物，典策官司，彝器龍旗九旒，祀帝於郊。 |
| 《孔子家語·賢君》: | 孔子曰：「昔者夏桀貴為天子，富有四海，忘其聖祖之道，壞其典法，廢其世祀，荒于淫樂，耽湎于酒。」 |
| 《潛夫論·讚學》: | 徒以其能自託於先聖之典經，結心於夫子之遺訓也。 |
| 《論衡·幸偶》: | 韓昭侯醉臥而寒，典冠加之以衣，覺而問之，知典冠愛己也，以越職之故，加之以罪。 |
| 《太玄經·太玄棿》: | 無冬無夏，祭之無度，故聖人著之以祀典。 |
| 《風俗通義·皇霸》: | 非有典藝之文，堅基可據，推當今以覽太古，自昭昭而本冥冥，乃欲審其事而建其論，董其是非而綜其詳矣，言也實為難哉！ |
| 《孔叢子·論書》: | 子曰：「吾於《帝典》見堯舜之聖焉。」 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 五典以經之，群籍以緯之，詠之歌之，弦之舞之。 |
| 《獨斷·卷下》: | 大官送用，園令食監典省其親陵所宮人，隨鼓漏，理被枕，具盥水，陳嚴具。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 帝謚：違拂不成曰隱，靖民則法曰黃，翼善傳聖曰堯，仁聖盛明曰舜，殘人多壘曰桀，殘義損善曰紂，慈惠愛親曰孝，愛民好與曰惠，聖善同文曰宣，聲聞宣遠曰昭，克定禍亂曰武，聰明睿智曰獻，溫柔聖善曰懿，布德執義曰穆，仁義說民曰元，安仁立政曰神，布綱治紀曰平，亂而不損曰靈，保民耆艾曰明，辟土有德曰襄，貞心大度曰匡，大慮慈民曰定，知過能改曰恭，不生其國曰聲，一德不懈曰簡，夙興夜寐曰敬，清白自守曰貞，柔德好眾曰靖，安樂治民曰康，小心畏忌曰僖，中身早折曰悼，慈仁和民曰順，好勇致力曰莊，恭人短折曰哀，在國逢難曰愍，名實過爽曰繆，壅遏不通曰幽，暴虐無親曰厲，致志大圖曰景，辟土兼國曰桓，經緯天地曰文，執義揚善曰懷，短折不成曰殤，去禮遠眾曰煬，怠政外交曰攜，治典不敷曰祈。 |
| 《列子·黃帝》: | 堯使夔典樂，擊石拊石，百獸率舞。 |
| 《鶡冠子·王鈇》: | 是以運天而維張，地廣而德章，天下安樂，設年予昌屬各以一時典最上賢不如令尹，令尹以聞，壹再削職，三則不赦，治不踰官，使史李不誤，公市為平，生者不喜，死者不怨，人得所欲，國無變故，著賞有功，德及三世，父伏其辜，不得創謚，事從一二，終古不勃。 |
| 《列仙傳·馬師皇》: | 師皇典馬，廄無殘駟。 |
| 《韓非子·二柄》: | 昔者韓昭侯醉而寢，典冠者見君之寒也，故加衣於君之上，覺寢而說，問左右曰：「誰加衣者？」 |
| 《管子·禁藏》: | 四曰必深親之，如典之同生陰內辯士，使圖其計。 |
| 《司馬法·天子之義》: | 古者戍兵三年不典，睹民之勞也。 |
| 《周髀算經·卷上》: | 方數為典，以方出圓。 |
| 《淮南子·齊俗訓》: | 衣足以覆形，從典墳，虛循撓，便身體，適行步，不務於奇麗之容，隅眥之削。 |
| 《呂氏春秋·察今》: | 東、夏之命，古今之法，言異而典殊，故古之命多不通乎今之言者，今之法多不合乎古之法者。 |
| 《春秋左傳》: | 鄭厲公自櫟侵鄭，及大陵，獲傅瑕，傅瑕曰，苟舍我，吾請納君，與之盟而赦之，六月，甲子，傅瑕殺鄭子，及其二子，而納厲公，初，內蛇與外蛇鬥於鄭南門中，內蛇死，六年而厲公入，公聞之，問於申繻曰，猶有妖乎，對曰，人之所忌，其氣燄以取之，妖由人興也，人無釁焉，妖不自作，人棄常，則妖興，故有妖，厲公入，遂殺傅瑕，使謂原繁曰，傅瑕貳，周有常刑，既伏其罪矣，納我而無二心者，吾皆許之，上大夫之事，吾願與伯父圖之，且寡人出，伯父無裡言，入，又不念寡人，寡人憾焉，對曰，先君桓公，命我先人，典司宗祏，社稷有主，而外其心，其何貳如之，苟主社稷，國內之民，其誰不為臣，臣無二心，天之制也，子儀在位，十四年矣，而謀召君者，庸非二乎，莊公之子，猶有八人，若皆以官爵行賂勸貳，而可以濟事，君其若之何，臣聞命矣，乃縊而死。 |
| 《逸周書·周書序》: | 文王在程，作程寤、程典。 |
| 《國語·楚語下》: | 又有左史倚相，能道訓典，以敘百物，以朝夕獻善敗于寡君，使寡君無忘先王之業。 |
| 《吳越春秋》: | 今吳承闔閭之軍制，子胥之典教，政平未虧，戰勝未敗。 |
| 《戰國策》: | 遂入大宮，負雞次之典以浮於江，逃於雲夢之中 |
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