萬物 wanwu. “The ten thousand things, the ten thousand processes or events, the myriad things or happenings.”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter I
2. Table of Contents i
3. Introduction vii
4. 霸 ba. “Hegemon.” See 王wang. “King, True King.” 001
5. 本 ben. “Root, trunk.” 001
6. 誠 cheng. “Sincerity, with integrity, resolve, (co-) creativity.” 011
7. 恥 chi. “A sense of shame.” 015
8. 道 dao. “The proper way, way-making, dao.” 019
9. 德 de. “Moral virtuosity, excelling morally, virtuality.” 028
10. 惡 e. “ Rudeness, uncouthness, nasty, ugly, unrefined, base.” 037
11. 法 fa. “Standards, norms, laws, models.” 038
12. 和 he. “Optimal harmony, optimizing symbiosis.” 040
13. 幾 ji. “Inchoate, incipient beginnings.” 052
14. 祭 ji. “Sacrificing, sacrifice.” 054
15. 諫 jian. “Remonstrating, remonstrance.” See also 孝 xiao “Family reverence, filial piety.” 057
16. 兼愛 jian’ai. “Inclusive care, inclusive concern.” 059
17. 教 jiao. “Teaching, education.” 061
18. 精神 jingshen. “Spirituality, vigor, vitality, mystery.” See also 神 shen. “Heavenly gods, ancestors, spirituality, vigor, vitality, mystery.” 067
19. 敬 jing. “Respecting, revering, seriousness.” 069
20. 靜 jing. “Sustained equilibrium.” 071
21. 君子 junzi. “Exemplary persons, ruler, prince, lord.” 073
22. 樂 le (also pronounced yao when transitive). “Enjoyment, making the music of enjoyment.” 079
23. 類 lei. “Categories, groupings.” See also 倫 lun. “Order, relation, category, class,” 理li. “Patterning, coherence,” and 象 xiang. “Figuring, figuring out, configuring, figure, imaging, imagining, image.” 082
24. 禮 li. “Ritual propriety in one’s roles and relations, ritual practices, ‘social grammar, rites, customs, etiquette, propriety, morals, rules of proper behavior, reverence’.” 085
25. 理 li. “Patterning, coherence.” See also 類 lei. “Categories, groupings,” 倫 lun. “Order, relation, category, class,” and 象 xiang. “Figuring, figuring out, configuring, figure, imaging, imagining, image.” 105
26. 利 li. “Benefitting, profiting, personal advantage.” See also 義 yi. “Optimal appropriateness, meaning.” 111
27. 倫 lun. “Order, relation, category, class.” See also 理 li. “Patterning, coherence,” 類 lei. “Categories, groupings,” and 象 xiang. “Figuring, figuring out, configuring, figure, imaging, imagining, image.” 113
28. 美 mei. “Beautiful.” 116
29. 民 min. “The common people.” 118
30. 命 ming.“Commanding, ordering, command, mandate, the propensity of things, the force of circumstances.” 124
31. 明 ming. “Acuity, brilliance.” 128
32. 名 ming. “Naming, making a name for yourself, reputation.” See also 正名 zhengming. “Using names properly.” 132
33. 內外 neiwai. “Inner and outer, inside and outside.” See also 心 xin. “Heartmind, bodyheartminding, thinking and feeling.” 136
34. 氣 qi. “Vital energy, qi.” See also 生 sheng. “Living, growing, birthing,” and 勢 shi. “Purchase, momentum, configuration.” 141
35. 情 qing. “Emotions, passions, feelings, the way things are, situation, circumstances.” 155
36. 仁 ren. “Consummate persons, consummate conduct.” 163
37. 儒 ru. “Confucianism, Ruism, scholar-teacher, literati tradition.” 181
38. 善 shan. “Felicity, efficacy, behaving well, auspicious conduct.” 186
39. 上帝 shangdi.“High god(s).” See also 祭 ji. “Sacrificing, sacrifice.” 192
40. 神 shen. “Heavenly gods, ancestors, spirituality, vigor, vitality, mystery.” 194
41. 身 shen. “Lived, social body.” See 體 ti. “Lived body, discursive body, embodying.” 仁 ren. “Consummate persons, consummate conduct.” 197
42. 生 sheng. “Living, growing, birthing.” See also 氣 qi. “Vital energy, qi,” and 勢 shi. “Purchase, momentum, configuration.” 197
43. 聖（人） sheng or shengren. “Sage, sagacity.” 211
44. 慎其獨 shenqidu. “Internalizing and consolidating virtuosic conduct as one’s habituated disposition for action, being circumspect when dwelling alone. 219
45. 士 shi. “Warrior, retainer, knight, scholar-official.” 223
46. 勢 shi. “Purchase, momentum, configuration.” See also 氣 qi. “Vital energy, qi,” and 生 sheng. “Living, growing, birthing.” 225
47. 始 shi. “Fetal beginning, natal beginning, genealogical beginning.” 238
48. 恕 shu. “Putting oneself in the other’s place, deference, empathy, dramatic rehearsal.” 248
49. 術 shu. “Techniques of rulership.” 257
50. 思 si. “Thinking, reflecting.” 261
51. 四端 siduan. “The four inclinations.” See also 心 xin. “Heartmind, bodyheartminding, thinking and feeling,” and 性 xing. “Natural human propensities.” 271
52. 太極 taiji. “The furthest reach.” 280
53. 體 ti. “Lived body, discursive body, embodying.” 283
54. 天 tian. “Tian, conventionally ‘Heaven.’” See also 聖 (人) sheng or shengren . “Sage, sagacity,” and 上 帝 shangdi. “High god(s).” 291
55. 天命 tianming. See 命 ming. 299
56. 天志 tianzhi. “The purposes or intent of tian. ” See also 天 tian. “Tian, conventionally ‘Heaven.’” 299
57. 體用 tiyong. “Reforming and functioning, transform-ing.” 303
58. 同 tong. “Sameness, similarity.” See also 聖(人) sheng or shengren. “Sage, sagacity.” 309
59. 王 wang. “King, True King.” 311
60. 萬物 wanwu. “The ten thousand things, the ten thousand processes or events, the myriad things or happenings.” 313
61. 文 wen. “The written word, patterns, culture, refinement, King Wen.” See also 文化 wenhua. “Culture, enculturation.” 315
62. 文化 wenhua. “Culture, enculturation.” See also 文 wen. “The written word, patterns, culture, refinement, King Wen.” 316
63. 無 wu. See 有無 youwu. 324
64. 無極 wuji. See 太極 taiji. 324
65. 無爲 wuwei. “Noncoercive acting.” 324
66. 五行 wuxing. “Five modes of virtuosic conduct, the five phases.” See also 氣 qi. “Vital energy, qi,” 體 用 tiyong. “Reforming and functioning, transform-ing,” and 陰陽 yinyang. “ Yin and yang.” 330
67. 象 xiang. “Figuring, figuring out, configuring, figure, imaging, imagining, image.” See also 理 li. “Patterning, coherence,” 類 lei. “Categories, groupings,” 倫 lun. “Order, relation, category, class.” 339
68. 孝 xiao. “Family reverence, filial piety.” 349
69. 小人 xiaoren. “Petty and mean persons.” See 君子 junzi. “Exemplary persons, ruler, prince, lord.” 373
70. 孝悌 xiaoti.“Family reverence and fraternal deference.” See 孝 xiao. “Family reverence, filial piety.” 373
71. 心 xin. “Heartmind, bodyheartminding, thinking and feeling.” See also 性 xing. “Natural human propensities,” 四端 siduan. “The four inclinations,” and 內外 neiwai. “Inner and outer, inside and outside.” 373
72. 信 xin. “Making good on one’s word, living up to one’s word.” 380
73. 性 xing. “Natural human propensities.” See also 心 xin. “Heartmind, bodyheartminding, thinking and feeling,” 四端 siduan. “The four inclinations.” 383
74. 虛 xu. “Emptiness.” 405
75. 學 xue. “Teaching and learning.” 406
76. 易 yi. “Changing, exchanging, ease.” 413
77. 一 yi. “One, uniqueness, continuity.” 414
78. 義 yi. “Optimal appropriateness, meaning.” 417
79. 陰陽 yinyang. “Yin and yang.” See also 五行 wuxing. “Five modes of virtuosic conduct, the five phases,” 氣 qi. “Vital energy, qi,” and 體用 tiyong. “Reforming and functioning, transform-ing.” 427
80. 勇 yong. “Courage, bravery, vigor, vitality, boldness, fierceness.” 433
81. 友 you. “Friend, friendship.” 434
82. 有無 youwu. “Something and nothing, determinate and indeterminate, presence and absence.” 438
83. 樂 yue. “Music.” See le. 樂. “Enjoyment, making the music of enjoyment.” 446
84. 正 zheng. “Proper, acting properly.” 446
85. 政 zheng. “Proper governing, effecting sociopolitical order.” 448
86. 正名 zhengming. “Using names properly.” See also 名 ming. “Naming, making a name for yourself, reputation.” 453
87. 知/智 zhi.“Living wisely, realizing, wisdom, knowing.” See also 體 ti. “Lived body, discursive body, embodying.” 463
88. 志 zhi. See 天志 tianzhi. “The purposes or intent of tian.” 481
89. 直 zhi. See 德 de. “Moral virtuosity, excelling morally, virtuality.” 481
90. 質 zhi. “Native temperament, raw stuff, basic disposition.” See also 文 wen. “The written word, patterns, culture, refinement, King Wen.” 481
91. 自然 ziran. “Self-so-ing, so-of-itself, spontaneity.” See also 勢 shi. “Purchase, momentum, configuration.” 485
92. 中 zhong. “Center, balance, focus, equilibrium.” 487
93. 忠 zhong. “Conscientiousness, doing one’s utmost, loyalty.” 489
94. 中庸 zhongyong. “Focusing the familiar, hitting the mark in the everyday, making the ordinary extraordinary.” 492
95. 主客 zhuke. “Subject and object, subjectivity and objectivity.” See 內外 neiwai. “Inner and outer, inside and outside.” 493
96. Bibliography of Earlier Glossaries 494
97. Bibliography of Works Cited 495
98. Acknowledgements 506