不念舊惡

Chinese

		not; no	to miss; to think of; to read to miss; to think of; to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; idea; remembrance; twenty	old grievance or wrong
trad. (不念舊惡)		不	念	舊惡
simp. (不念旧恶)		不	念	旧恶

Etymology

From the Analects, Book 5 (《論語·公冶長》):

子曰：「伯夷、叔齊不念舊惡，怨是用希。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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子曰：「伯夷、叔齐不念旧恶，怨是用希。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Zǐyuē: “Bóyí, Shūqí bù niàn jiù'è, yuàn shì yòng xī.” [Pinyin]

The Master said, "Boyi and Shuqi did not keep the former wickednesses of men in mind, and hence the resentments directed towards them were few."

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùniànjiù'è

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ nim⁶ gau⁶ ok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùniànjiù'è [Phonetic: búniànjiù'è]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùniànjiòu-è
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-nien⁴-chiu⁴-o⁴
    • Yale: bù-nyàn-jyòu-è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buniannjioweh
    • Palladius: буняньцзюэ (bunjanʹczjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ni̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ nim⁶ gau⁶ ok³
    • Yale: bāt nihm gauh ok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ nim⁶ gau⁶ ok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ nim⁶ geo⁶ og³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ niːm²² kɐu̯²² ɔːk̚³/

Idiom

不念舊惡

1. to not bear a grudge; to forgive and forget; to let bygones be bygones