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Mengzi

Syllables: Meng·zi

Mengzi proper noun: the Chinese philosopher Mencius.

Proper noun (1)

Mengzi

  1. The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
  2. A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.

Proper noun (2)

Mengzi

  1. A county-level city of Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.
    • 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...[1975, “A Peasant Night School of Fine Arts”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], number 5, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90
    • “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.2024 June 22, Peter Neville-Hadley, “‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

Synonyms of Mengzi

Forms of Mengzi

alternative formMeng-tzu
alternative form (dated)Mengtsz
alternative form (dated)Mengtzu
alternative form (obsolete)Mongtze
alternative form (obsolete)Montze
alternative form (obsolete)Monse
alternative form (obsolete)Mungçu

Origin of Mengzi

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 蒙自 (Méngzì).

Questions about Mengzi

What does Mengzi mean?
Mengzi means the Chinese philosopher Mencius.
What part of speech is Mengzi?
Mengzi is a proper noun.

Words near Mengzi in the dictionary

  1. Mengrelia
  2. mengs
  3. Mengtsz
  4. Mengwe
  5. Mengzhou
  6. Mengzi
  7. Mengzian
  8. menhadden
  9. menhaden
  10. menhadens
  11. Menheniot

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