一孔录子曰：觚不觚，觚哉！觚哉！What this chapter says
一孔按：名还在、样子没了，就不算那个东西；说的是器，指的是君臣各失其道。今例：一把叫“椅子”的东西，好看却没法坐。常有人问“一只杯子没了棱，孔子为什么连叹两声”，上面是一孔录的回答。
白Plain Chinese
孔子说：觚已经不像觚了，这还叫觚吗！这还叫觚吗！
A plain modern-Chinese rendering following Yikonglu's reading.
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Close reading and checking
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常The common reading
一只杯子没了棱，孔子为什么连叹两声？
注Key words in the commentary
“觚，棱也。或曰酒器，或曰木简，皆器之有棱者也。不觚者，盖当时失其制而不为棱也。”
说What other commentators say
程子“觚而失其形制，则非觚也。举一器而天下之物莫不皆然。故君而失其君之道，则为不君；臣而失其臣之职，则为虚位”；范祖禹“人而不仁则非人，国而不治则不国矣”。
家Other commentaries
Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 三
“觚，禮酒器也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | differs | fairly sure | 均以觚失其实而仍名觚讥世失正。钱主称酒器并列寡少与失棱两解，朱以觚为棱、主取失形制且兼列酒器木简。 |
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Every commentary line quoted in the video: the original wording, who said it, and the page in the base edition. “Paraphrase” marks our summary, not the commentator's words. About this edition
| Quoted text | Source | Page |
|---|---|---|
| “觚，棱也……言不得为觚也” | Zhu Xi's commentary | page 87 |
| “程子曰：觚而失其形制……则为虚位。范氏曰：……则不国矣” | 朱注引程子、范氏 | page 87 |
音Pronunciation
| Character | In the line | Read as |
|---|---|---|
| 觚 | 觚不觚、觚哉 | gū |
页Pages of the base edition
勘Errata for this chapter
Errata are kept in Chinese.
- 2026-11-12 读法原来：旁白“孔子拿起一只酒器，说：觚不像觚了”；改为：经文没说孔子拿起酒器，朱注对觚是什么也两说并存（依据：经文只有“子曰：觚不觚”；朱注“或曰酒器，或曰木简”；勘误者：一孔录自查）
Yikonglu, Analects 雍也第六 6.23 “觚不觚”, https://yikonglu.com/en/lunyu/yong-ye/23.html, version 2026-11-15.Last checked: 2026-11-15. Changes are logged on theerrata page.
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