Book 10: 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang (In the Village)
《鄉黨》 Passage 10.22
朋友死，無所歸。曰：「於我殯。」
Legge Translation (1861)
When any of his friends died, if he had no relations who could be depended on for the necessary offices, he would say: "I will bury him."Word by word
- 朋友 péng yǒu
friend
- 朋 friend, companion
- 友 friend, companion
- 死 sǐ
to die
- 無所歸 wú suǒ guī
have no one to receive the body, no kin to see to the funeral
- 無 there is no, to lack, to be without
- 所 nominalizing particle: that which, the means by which
- 歸 to return, to be given over to (of a body needing care)
無所歸 literally: to have no place to which [the body] can return; translators render it as lacking kin or means to handle the funeral.
- 曰 yuē
to say (introduces direct speech)
- 於 yú
locative coverb: at, in, from
- 我 wǒ
I, me, my
- 殯 bìn
to take charge of the funeral, see to the funeral arrangements
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