倫
human relationship; order; coherence
Closest English meanings
human relations·order·ethics·proper sequence
The Calligrapher — Chǔ Suíliáng 褚遂良
Tang chancellor and regular-script master of elegant, balanced strokes.
Tang calligrapher (596–658), master of regular script — Tang master of graceful, tensile regular script favored by the imperial court. Tang dynasty
Cultural Story
Mencius, urging the teaching of human relations, listed the five 倫: father and son, ruler and minister, husband and wife, elder and younger, friend and friend. The 倫理 of a household was the warp of the state. To know one's place in the 倫 was to know how to behave; disorder in the relations meant disorder in the realm itself.
Common words & phrases
- 倫理 ethics · moral principles
- 人倫 human relations · moral order
- 天倫 natural bonds (of family)
- 絕倫 unsurpassed · peerless
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A university opens a 倫理 course on AI and privacy; a hospital board weighs medical 倫理 over a trial. Families still measure conduct by 人倫 — how a son phones his mother, how partners divide the bills. The old word for the order of relations now governs committee rooms and consent forms as much as the dinner table.
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