Mengzi
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: mǔngʹdzûʹ
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).
Proper noun[edit]
Mengzi
- The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
- A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.
Usage notes[edit]
Preceded by the definite article (the) when distinguishing the book from the philosopher.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Chinese philosopher (Mencius)
References[edit]
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 482: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Meng-tzu (Mengzi) 孟子”
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 蒙自 (Méngzì).
Alternative forms[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Mengzi
- A county-level city in Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.
- 2022 April 23, “World Book Day marked across China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[2], archived from the original on 23 April 2022[3]:
- People read at a library on World Book Day in Mengzi, Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe in southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 23, 2022.
Translations[edit]
city in Yunnan, China
Further reading[edit]
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Mengzi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1951, column 1
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Mengzi
- Mencius (Chinese philosopher)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Mengzi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mengzi | — | ||
genitive | Mengzin | — | ||
partitive | Mengziä | — | ||
illative | Mengziin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mengzi | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Mengzi | — | |
gen. | Mengzin | |||
genitive | Mengzin | — | ||
partitive | Mengziä | — | ||
inessive | Mengzissä | — | ||
elative | Mengzistä | — | ||
illative | Mengziin | — | ||
adessive | Mengzillä | — | ||
ablative | Mengziltä | — | ||
allative | Mengzille | — | ||
essive | Mengzinä | — | ||
translative | Mengziksi | — | ||
abessive | Mengzittä | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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