Sinograph Addenda · Signs
好fond · hǎo · good, fine; (hào) to be fond of, to love
fond
Where it comes from
Woman 女woman · nǚ · woman and child 子child · zǐ · child, son; the Master; a title of respect side by side — the classic account of
what good looks like. Read hǎo it is the adjective; read hào,
the classical texts’ favorite, it is the verb: to love, to be
fond of. Taught in
the like-and-alike chapter.
How to remember it
Mother and child together: fond — the picture explains both
the noun’s warmth and the verb’s pull.
In the wild
知know · zhī · to know, to understand之of · zhī · of; him, her, it — the classical linker and object者who · zhě · the one who — turns a verb into its doer不not · bù · not — the plain negation如like · rú · to be like, as; if; to go to好fond · hǎo · good, fine; (hào) to be fond of, to love之of · zhī · of; him, her, it — the classical linker and object者who · zhě · the one who — turns a verb into its doer。zhī zhī zhě bù rú hào zhī zhě"the one who knows it is not the equal of the one who LOVES it" — 好fond · hǎo · good, fine; (hào) to be fond of, to love as the verb hào, outranking knowledge itself
Analects 6.20.
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