{"path":"/entry/116026","title":"韦编三绝 / 韋編三絕 (wéi biān sān jué) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"韦编三绝 / 韋編三絕 (wéi biān sān jué): literally the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":116026,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["韦编三绝"],"TRADITIONAL":["韋編三絕"]}},"phonetic":"wéi biān sān jué","phoneticKey":"wei2 bian1 san1 jue2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally the leather binding ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(of the bamboo scroll)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":" has broken three times","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to study diligently","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the story of Confucius studying the Classic of Changes so diligently that the tanned leather threads which connected the bamboo slips broke several times.","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Directly from:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Note that in Classical Chinese 三 may also mean many instead of being exactly three.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"孔子晚而喜易，序彖、系、象、说卦、文言。读易，韦编三绝。","traditional":"孔子晚而喜易，序彖、繫、象、說卦、文言。讀易，韋編三絕。"},"phonetic":"Kǒngzǐ wǎn ér xǐ Yì, xù Tuàn, Xì, Xiàng, Shuōguà, Wényán. Dú Yì, wéibiān sān jué.","english":"In his old age Confucius loved to study the Book of Changes and wrote commentaries titled Tuan (Commentary on the Judgment), Xici (Commentary on the Appended Phrases), Xiang (lit. image), Shuogua (lit. Explanation of the Trigrams) and Wenyan (Commentary on the Words). He studied this book so much that the leather thongs binding the wooden strips wore out thrice.","ref":"The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}