君子之交

Traditional form:

君子之交

Pinyin (reading):

jūnzǐzhījiāo

Definitions:

• friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子／庄子 ( Zhuāngzǐ))

Characters:

• 君 - sovereign, ruler, prince, monarch, chief
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 交 - to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix

Traditional characters:

• 君 - sovereign, ruler, prince, monarch, chief
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 交 - to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix