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Mengzi
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Mèngzǐ Méngzì méngzi měngzi
English
Alternative forms
en Meng-tzu Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
mŭng′dzœ′Mengtsz or Meng-tzu 1184 3
en Meng zi
Etymology 1
Borrowed from the en cmn-pinyin -en Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 482 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/482/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Meng-tzu (Mengzi) zh 孟子 romanization of the en cmn - Chinese for 孟子.
Proper noun
The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.
Usage notes
Preceded by the definite article (the) when distinguishing the book from the philosopher.
Synonyms
en Mencius
Translations
Chinese philosopher (Mencius)
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 孟子 maang6 zi2
Mandarin: cmn 孟子 Mèngzǐ
French: fr
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko ^맹자
References
Etymology 2
Mengzi City
Borrowed from the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese for 蒙自.
Alternative forms
en Mengtsz Mengtzu dated
en Mongtze Montze Monse Mungçu obsolete
Proper noun
en county-level city Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture/Honghe in southeastern p/Yunnan c/China.
en 1975 A Peasant Night School of Fine Arts Chinese Literature zh 中国文学 5 https://archive.org/details/ChineseLiterature/CL1975-05/ Peking w:Foreign Languages Press 0009-4617 1554366 90 https://archive.org/details/ChineseLiterature/CL1975-05/page/n51/ Since the Peasant Night School of Fine Arts in Hsinan Commune of Mengtzu County in Yunnan Province was set up in 1972, its students have created more than two hundred works of art and held four exhibitions of traditional Chinese paintings, New-Year pictures, scissor-cuts, wood carvings and clay sculptures. on
en 22 June 2024 Peter Neville-Hadley ‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240622032420/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3267400/piece-china-mislaid-mengzi-yunnan-charming-traces-its-time-treaty-port https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3267400/piece-china-mislaid-mengzi-yunnan-charming-traces-its-time-treaty-port 22 June 2024 1563-9371 648902513 Travel “Yunnan is a forgotten province, a piece of China mislaid by the world,” wrote the British novelist Stella Benson when she was living in Mengzi, not far from the Vietnamese border, in the 1920s.
en
Translations
city in Yunnan, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 蒙自 mung4 zi6
Mandarin: cmn 蒙自 Méngzì
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko ^멍쯔
Further reading
en 1998 Mengzi Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1951 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1951/ 1
en Individuals
Finnish
Etymology
From fi cmn 孟子 Mèngzǐ.
Pronunciation
meŋzi
Proper noun
Mencius Chinese philosopher
Declension
Mengz ä sg