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Neo-Confucian

Neo-Confucian adjective: of or relating to Neo-Confucianism.

Adjective

Neo-Confucian (comparative more Neo-Confucian, superlative most Neo-Confucian)

  1. Of or relating to Neo-Confucianism.
    • As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship.1956, Li Chien-lung, translated by Ssu-yu Teng and Jeremy Hills, The Political History of China, 1840-1928, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 145

Noun

Neo-Confucian (plural Neo-Confucians)

  1. An adherent of Neo-Confucianism.

Forms of Neo-Confucian

Adjective
comparativemore Neo-Confucian
superlativemost Neo-Confucian
alternative formneo-Confucian
Noun
pluralNeo-Confucians

Origin of Neo-Confucian

From neo- + Confucian.

Questions about Neo-Confucian

What does Neo-Confucian mean?
Neo-Confucian means of or relating to Neo-Confucianism.
What part of speech is Neo-Confucian?
Neo-Confucian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Neo-Confucian in the dictionary

  1. neo-colonized
  2. neo-colonizes
  3. neo-colonizing
  4. neo-colony
  5. neo-con
  6. Neo-Confucian
  7. Neo-Confucianism
  8. Neo-Confucianist
  9. Neo-Confucianists
  10. Neo-Confucians
  11. neo-cons

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