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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (1.1): 形體。 Body, thing with form.
| 《》: | 大象無形。 | | A semblance great, the shadow of a shade. |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (1.2): 特指身體。 Human body.
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (2.1): 形狀，形象。 Form, appearance.
| 《·》: | 故兵無常勢，水無常形。 | | Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. | | 《·》: | 符拔形似麟而無角。 |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (2.2): 特指地形。 Lay of the land.
| 《·》: | 孫子曰：地形有通者，有挂者，有支者，有隘者，有險者，有遠者。 | | Sunzi said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporizing ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy. |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (2.3): 情形，情況。 Circumstances.
| 《·》: | 今太子聞光壯盛之時，不知吾形已不逮也，幸而教之曰『燕秦不兩立，願先生留意也』 | | 《·》: | 今聖王沒，名守慢，奇辭起，名實亂，是非之形不明，則雖守法之吏，誦數之儒，亦皆亂也。 |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (3): 形勢。 Condition, situation.
| 《·》: | 夫秦、韓不得無同憂，其形可見。 | | 《·》: | 強弱，形也。 |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (4): 形成。 Form, create.
| 《·》: | 故欲成方圓而隨其規矩，則萬事之功形矣。 | | 《·》: | 然則天地初形，人物既著，則筭數之事生矣。 |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (5): 表現，顯露。 Exhibit, show.
| 《·》: | 有諸內必形諸外。 | | When there is the gift within, it manifests itself without. |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (6): 對照，比較。 Compare.
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (7): 通〝型〞：模子。 Mould, die.
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (8): 通“” xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ: 刑法，法度。 Law, rules of punishment.
| 《·》: | 治復一，脩之吉，君子執之心如結，眾人貳之，讒夫棄之，形是詰。 |
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xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ (9): 通“” xíng ㄒㄧㄥˊ: 盛羹的瓦器。 Porcelain soup bowl.
| 《·》: | 逮至其厚愛，黍稷不二，羹胾不重，飯於土塯，啜於土形，斗以酌。 | | Yet, even when he was served with what he much liked, he did not take a double cereal or both soup and meat. He ate out of an earthen liu and drank out of an earthen xing, and took wine out of a spoon. |
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