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 _undertoad _undertoad December 1, 2014 December 1, 2014 at 2:40:12 AM UTC link Permalink

Does the Japanese sentence mean, "Know your enemy as well as you know yourself," or, "Know yourself and know your enemy?"

The English sentence could be taken to mean either, and the French sentence #3665365 (linked to the Japanese) takes the second meaning.

As an aside, are entries like these from the Tanaka Corpus generally just ignored, or is there an on-going effort to clean them up?

CK CK December 1, 2014, edited December 1, 2014 December 1, 2014 at 3:58:45 AM UTC, edited December 1, 2014 at 3:59:49 AM UTC link Permalink

The English-Japanese match isn't too bad. It literally means: Know yourself, and also know your enemy.

A quick bit of googling shows this as a Sun Tzu quote.

_undertoad _undertoad December 1, 2014 December 1, 2014 at 6:08:36 AM UTC link Permalink

Thanks, CK!

fjay69 fjay69 December 20, 2018 December 20, 2018 at 8:21:18 AM UTC link Permalink

Full quote: #4045594

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➜ #125304敵を知り、自分自身も知れ。

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Know yourself as well as your enemy.

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➜ #366597Poznaj wroga, poznaj też samego siebie.

linked by zipangu, February 20, 2010
➜ #2402928קען זיך, ווי גוט ווי דיין פיינד.

linked by negativeclock, April 25, 2013
➜ #3686013Kenne dich selbst so gut wie deinen Feind.

linked by Tamy, December 10, 2014
➜ #4056539Познавај се исто толку добро колку што го познаваш својот непријател.

linked by Lepotdeterre, April 10, 2015