Mengzi
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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