Mengzi

• Meng-tzu (Wade–Giles)

• enPR: mǔngʹdzûʹ

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin^[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).

Mengzi

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

Preceded by the definite article (the) when distinguishing the book from the philosopher.

• Mencius

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

• Mengtsz, Mengtzu (dated)

Mengzi

1. A county-level city of Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.
   • [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:

     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.]

   • 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^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2024, Travel‎^[3]:

     “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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mengzi.

• 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

From Mandarin 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeŋzi/, [ˈme̞ŋzi]
• Rhymes: -eŋzi

Mengzi

1. Mencius (Chinese philosopher)