yes, certainly; pledge, promise
The corpus record — Literary Chinese
然
rán
yes, certainly; pledge, promise
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Where it lives
- Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 110 · 79.83/10k
- Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 93 · 52.87/10k
- Mencius 184 · 51.88/10k
- Analects (Lunyu) 38 · 23.72/10k
What it meant — Unihan character definitions
In the wild
- 然 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
- 然 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十二章
- 然 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
- 然 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
- 然 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十五章
- 然 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十五章
6 of 425 attestations shown.
Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).