meant to use; hence the method to be used or followed, a course.

[The Chung Yung is a short philosophical treatise in one section of thirty-three chapters. Its title has been rendered by Legge as The Doctrine of the Mean, by Julien as L'Invariable Milieu.]

124.	子	思	筆	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	by the pen of Tzŭ-ssŭ;
	Tzŭ3	ssŭ1	pi3
	Tzŭ	ssŭ	brush

Tzŭ see line 11.

Ssŭ is composed of 心 hsin heart, the seat of intelligence, as radical, below an old word (not 田 t'ien fields) for the crown of the head, the fontanelle, and originally meant perspicacity. Read ssŭ⁴ it means thoughts; read sai¹ the jowl. [Tzŭ-ssŭ was the style of 孔伋 K'ung Chi, grandson of Confucius.]

Pi is composed of 竹 chu bamboo, its modern radical, and 聿 lü or yü a stylus, the old radical, the latter being used to scratch characters on bamboo tablets until the invention of the brush which has been assigned to the 3rd cent. B.C. [In some editions this line reads 乃孔伋, nai k'ung chi, with the same meaning.]

125.	中	不	偏	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	Chung (the middle) being that which does not lean towards any side,
	Chung1	pu1	p'ien1
	Middle	not	deflected

Chung see line 64.

Pu see line 5.

P'ien is composed of 人 jen man as radical, with 扁 pien flat as phonetic. See line 116.

126.	庸	不	易	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	Yung (the course) being that which cannot be changed.
	Yung1	pu1	i4
	Course	not	change

Yung see line 123.