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zhě ㄓㄜˇ (1.1): 代词：用于动词、形容词等词语之后，指人或事物。 Pronoun used after verbs, adjectives, etc. in place of a person or thing.
| 《·》: | 推也者，以其所不取之同于其所取者，予之也。 | | "Extending" is taking what he has not chosen but is similar to what he has chosen, and presenting it to him. | | 《·》: | 有子曰：“其为人也孝弟，而好犯上者，鲜矣。” | | The philosopher You said, "They are few who, being filial and fraternal, are fond of offending against their superiors." | | 《·》: | 万乘之国弑其君者，必千乘之家。 | | In the kingdom of ten thousand chariots, the murderer of his sovereign shall be the chief of a family of a thousand chariots. | | 《·》: | 此亦治天下者之过也。 | | This is just the error committed by the governors of the world. | | 《·》: | 黄帝二十五子，其得姓者十四人。 | | Huangdi had twenty-five sons, of whom fourteen received surnames. | | 《·》: | 遂命子贡为之主，曰：“为尔哭也来者，拜之。” | | Accordingly he ordered Zi-gong to act as presiding mourner on the occasion, saying to him, 'Bow to those who come because you have a wailing in your house.' |
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zhě ㄓㄜˇ (1.2): 代词：用于数字之后，指代事物。 Pronoun used after numbers in place of a thing.
| 《·》: | 子贡曰：“必不得已而去，于斯二者何先？” | | Zi Gong again asked, "If it cannot be helped, and one of the remaining two must be dispensed with, which of them should be foregone?" | | 《·》: | 君请择于斯二者。 | | I ask you, prince, to make your election between these two courses. | | 《·》: | 农、商、官三者，国之常官也 | | Farming, trade and office are the three permanent functions in a state. | | 《·》: | 凡斯二者，足以和矣。 |
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zhě ㄓㄜˇ (1.3): 代词：用于时间词或否定词之后，表示“...时候”或“...的话”。 Pronoun used after time or negation to express "when" or "if".
| 《·》: | 有若无，实若虚，犯而不校，昔者吾友尝从事于斯矣。 | | Having, as though he had not; full, and yet counting himself as empty; offended against, and yet entering into no altercation; formerly I had a friend who pursued this style of conduct. | | 《·》: | 昔者齐景公问于晏子曰：‘吾欲观于转附、朝儛，遵海而南，放于琅邪。’ | | Formerly, the duke Jing of Qi asked the minister Yan, saying, "I wish to pay a visit of inspection to Zhuan Fu, and Chao Wu, and then to bend my course southward along the shore, till I come to Lang Xie." | | 《·》: | 故昔者尧问于舜曰：“我欲伐宗、脍、胥敖，南面而不释然。” | | Therefore of old Yao asked Shun, saying, 'I wish to smite (the rulers of) Zong, Kuai, and Xu-Ao. Even when standing in my court, I cannot get them out of my mind.' | | 《·》: | 昔者文王舍伯邑考而立武王，微子舍其孙腯而立衍也。 | | Anciently, king Wen passed over his eldest son Yi-kao, and appointed king Wu; and the count of Wei passed over his grandson Tu, and made Yan, his (own) younger brother, his successor. | | 《·》: | 不念昔者、伊余来塈。 | | You do not think of the former days, And are only angry with me. | | 《·》: | 昔者之虑也，非今日之虑也。 |
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zhě ㄓㄜˇ (2.1): 语气词：用于判断句，放在主语之后，引出判断。 Expressive particle used in a declarative sentence after the subject.
| 《·》: | 夫辩者，将以明是非之分，审治乱之纪，明同异之处，察名实之理，处利害，决嫌疑。 | | "Distinguishing" will be used to make clear the distinction between so and not-so; investigate the rules of order and chaos; make clear the locations of similarity and difference; examine the patterns of name and stuff; locate benefit and harm, and resolve doubts. | | 《·》: | 宰我问曰：“仁者，虽告之曰：‘井有仁焉。’” | | Zai Wo asked, saying, "A benevolent man, though it be told him, 'There is a man in the well'" | | 《·》: | 曰：“不为者与不能者之形何以异？” | | The king asked, 'How may the difference between the not doing a thing, and the not being able to do it, be represented?' | | 《·》: | 黄帝者，少典之子，姓公孙，名曰轩辕。 | | Huangdi (Yellow emperor) was the son of Shaodian. His surname was Gongsun, and his prename Xuanyuan. | | 《·》: | 夫礼者所以定亲疏，决嫌疑，别同异，明是非也。 | | They are the rules of propriety, that furnish the means of determining (the observances towards) relatives, as near and remote; of settling points which may cause suspicion or doubt; of distinguishing where there should be agreement, and where difference; and of making clear what is right and what is wrong. | | 《·》: | 曰：马者，所以命形也。 | | "Horse" is how the shape is named. |
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zhě ㄓㄜˇ (2.2): 语气词：用于主语之后，引出原因、解释等。 Expressive particle used in a sentence after the subject to express cause or explanation.
| 《》: | 人所以谓尧贤者，以其让天下于许由，许由必不受也，则是尧有让许由之名而实不失天下也。 | | 《·》: | 人之谓尧贤者，以其让天下于许由，许由不受，有让天下之名而实不失天下。 | | 《》: | 人谓尧贤者，以其让天下于许由，由必不受，有让天下之名，实不失天下。 |
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zhuó ㄓㄨㄛˊ (3): 通“著”：居、处于。 In, located in.
| 《》: | 大国者下流，天下之交，天下之牝 | | What makes a great state is its being (like) a low-lying, down- flowing (stream); - it becomes the centre to which tend (all the small states) under heaven. (To illustrate from) the case of all females: |
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