are 'Man' or 'a man is the connection' or 'the harmonization of Heaven and Earth'.

Pre-imperial epigraphic sources testify to alternative writings of the same character: ? (given as a variant of ? in the Shuowen dictionary), ? with ? below (???), and the latter compound with ? on the right.

Nature of

has been translated as "benevolence", "perfect virtue", "goodness", or "human-heartedness".

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