Confucius

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• K'ung-tzu
• Kongzi
• Kong Zi

Etymology

From Latin Confucius, from Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ, “Master Kong”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈfju.ʃəs/

Proper noun

Confucius

1. Western name of Kong Qiu (孔丘), an influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 BCE – 479 BCE.
2. (very rare) A male given name.

Derived terms

• Confucian
• Confucianism
• Confucianist

See also

• Laozi

Translations

Chinese philosopher

• Afrikaans: Konfusius
• Amharic: ኮንግ-ፉጸ ‎(kong-fuṣä)
• Arabic: كُونْفُوشِيُوس m ‎(kūnfūšiyūs)
• Aragonese: Confucio
• Aramaic: ܩܘܢܦܘܫܝܘܣ
• Armenian: Կոնֆուցիոս ‎(Konfucʿios)
• Asturian: Confucio
• Aymara: Confucius
• Bambara: Confucius
• Bashkir: Конфуций ‎(Konfutsiy)
• Basque: Konfuzio
• Bavarian: Konfuzius
• Belarusian: Канфу́цый m ‎(Kanfúcyj)
• Bengali: কনফুসিয়াস ‎(kônphusiyas)
• Bikol Central: Confucius
• Bislama: Confucius
• Breton: Konfusius
• Bulgarian: Конфу́ций m ‎(Konfúcij)
• Burmese: ကွန်ဖြူးရှပ် ‎(kwanhpru:hrap)
• Catalan: Confuci
• Cebuano: Confucio
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 孔子 ‎(hung² zi²), 孔夫子 ‎(hung² fu¹ zi²), 孔丘 ‎(hung² jau¹)

  Hakka: 孔子 ‎(Khúng-chṳ́)

  Mandarin: 孔子 (zh) ‎(Kǒngzǐ), 孔夫子 (zh) ‎(Kǒng Fūzǐ), 孔丘 (zh) ‎(Kǒng Qiū)

  Min Nan: 孔子 ‎(Khóng-chú), 孔子公 (zh-min-nan) ‎(Khóng-chú-kong)

• Corsican: Confuciu
• Czech: Konfucius m
• Danish: Konfutse
• Dhivehi: ކޮންފޫޝާ ‎(konfūšā)
• Esperanto: Konfuceo
• Faroese: Konfusius
• Fiji Hindi: Confucius
• Finnish: Kungfutse, Konfutse
• French: Confucius (fr) m
• Galician: Confucio
• Georgian: კონფუცი ‎(ḳonpuci)
• German: Konfuzius m
• Greek: Κομφούκιος (el) m ‎(Komfoúkios)
• Greenlandic: Konfusiusi
• Guaraní: Konfúsio
• Gujarati: કન્ફ્યુશિયસ ‎(kanphyuśiyas)
• Hausa: Confucius
• Hebrew: קונפוציוס m

• Hindi: कन्फ्यूशियस m ‎(kanphyūśiyas)
• Hungarian: Konfuciusz (hu)
• Icelandic: Konfúsíus
• Ido: Kong Zi
• Igbo: Konfúkius
• Interlingua: Confucio
• Interlingue: Konfuzius
• Irish: Confúicias
• Italian: Confucio m
• Japanese: 孔子 ‎(こうし, Kōshi), 孔夫子 ‎(こうふうし, Kōfūshi)
• Kazakh: Құң-зы ‎(Quñ-zı)
• Khmer: ខុងជឺ ‎(kʰoŋ cɨɨ)
• Korean: 공자 ‎(Gongja) (孔子 (ko)), 공부자 ‎(Gongbuja) (孔夫子 (ko))
• Lao: ຂົງຈື້ ‎(khong chư̄)
• Latin: Confucius (la)
• Lithuanian: Konfucijus
• Macedonian: Конфу́чиј m ‎(Konfúčij)
• Ossetian: Конфуций ‎(Konfucij)
• Pennsylvania German: Konfyuschus
• Persian: کنفوسیوس
• Polish: Konfucjusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Confúcio m
• Russian: Конфу́ций m ‎(Konfúcij), Ку́н-Цзы́ m ‎(Kún-Czý)
• Scottish Gaelic: Confucius
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Конфучије m

  Roman: Konfučije m

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Konfucius

  Upper Sorbian: Konfucius

• Spanish: Confucio m
• Swedish: Konfucius
• Tamil: கன்பூசியஸ் ‎(kaṉpūciyas)
• Thai: ขงจื๊อ (th) ‎(kŏng-jéu)
• Tibetan: ཁུང་ཙི ‎(khung tsi)
• Ukrainian: Конфу́цій m ‎(Konfúcij)
• Vietnamese: Khổng Tử (孔子), Khổng Phu Tử (孔夫子)
• Welsh: Conffiwsiws
• West Frisian: Konfusius
• Yiddish: קאָנפֿוציוס ‎(konfutsyus)
• Yoruba: Kọnfukiọsi
• Zealandic: Confucius

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French

Etymology

From Latin Confucius, from Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ) "Master Kong".

Proper noun

Confucius

1. Confucius

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Confutius

Etymology

From Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ) "Master Kong".

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈfu.ki.us/, [kõːˈfʊ.ki.ʊs]

Proper noun

Confucius m ‎(genitive Confucii); second declension

1. Confucius
   • 1687: Philippe Couplet, Confucius, Sinarum Philosophus

     CUM FU CU, ſive Confucius quem Sinenſes uti Principem Philoſophiæ ſuæ ſequuntur, ...

   • 1698: Johann Jacob Hofmann, Lexicon Universale

     CONFUTIUS, dictus Socrates Sinenſis, tum quia huic σύγχρονος, tum quia morum imprimis Doctrinam excoluit.