Sentence examples for ru from inspiring English sources

As its first criterion for classifying syllables, the Qieyun takes the tones, of which it has four: ping, shang (here transcribed with a colon, as in pa:), qu (here transcribed with a hyphen, as in pa-), and ru, or even, rising, falling, and entering ("checked") tones.

Yet it was not until the prime minister Gongsun Hong (died 121 bce) had persuaded Wudi to announce formally that the ru school alone would receive state sponsorship that Confucianism became an officially recognized imperial ideology and state cult.

For instance, ṛ is pronounced ri in the north and ru in areas such as Maharashtra; in very careful pronunciation (as taught, for example, in Maharashtra), this vowel is pronounced rɨ.

The Indian syllables ṣa, ṛi, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni are similar, as are the Balinese ding, dong, deng, dung, dang; the ancient five-note Chinese scale kung, shang, chiao, chih, yü; and the Korean tŏng, tung, tang, tong, ting; and rŏ, ru, ra, ro, ri (the two sets being used for different instruments).

Sherpa culture is based on a clan system (ru).

By contrast, though Xunzi defended the traditionalism and ritualism of the ru erudites, he did not otherwise owe them a significant philosophical debt.

This is given credence by two related Germanic forms that mean "mystery, secret, secrecy": the Old Germanic root ru- and the Gothic runa.

Given the shared ru-moConfucian-Mohist assumption that normative authority for their competing first-order daos comes from some form of endorsement by tiannature:sky.

Theoretical Daoism focused on the insolubility of this ru-moConfucian-Mohist debate.

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