己に如かざる者を友とするなかれ
Japanese
edit| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 己 | 如 | 者 | 友 |
| おのれ Grade: 6 |
し Grade: S |
もの Grade: 3 |
とも Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi | |||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 己に如かざる者を友とするなかれ (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
editCalque of Literary Chinese 無友不如己者 (wú yǒu bùrú jǐ zhě).
Proverb
edit己に如かざる者を友とするなかれ • (onore ni shikazaru mono o tomo to surunakare)
- Do not befriend people who are not as sincere as you are.
References
edit- The Kōjien (広辞苑) Dictionary of the Japanese Language, 5th edition, Iwanami Shoten Publishing, Tokyo.
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 己 read as おのれ
- Japanese terms spelled with 如 read as し
- Japanese terms spelled with 者 read as もの
- Japanese terms spelled with 友 read as とも
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese terms calqued from Literary Chinese
- Japanese terms derived from Literary Chinese
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proverbs
- Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with four Han script characters