Confucius

English

Alternative forms

• K'ung-tzu
• Kongzi
• Kong Zi

Etymology

Borrowed 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 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E..
2. (very rare) A male given name from Latin.

Derived terms

• Confucian
• Confucianism
• Confucianist

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
• Azerbaijani: Konfutsi
• Bambara: Confucius
• Bashkir: Конфуций (Konfutsiy)
• Basque: Konfuzio
• Bavarian: Konfuzius
• Belarusian: Канфу́цый m (Kanfúcyj)
• Bengali: কনফুসিয়াস (kônphuśiẏaś)
• 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 Dong: 孔子 (Kūng-cṳ̄)

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

  Wu: 孔子 (khon tsr)

• Corsican: Confuciu
• Czech: Konfucius m
• Danish: Konfutse, Konfucius
• Dhivehi: ކޮންފޫޝާ‎ (kon̊fūšā)
• Esperanto: Konfuceo
• Faroese: Konfusius
• Fiji Hindi: Confucius
• Finnish: Kungfutse, Konfutse
• French: Confucius (fr) m
• Galician: Confucio
• Georgian: კონფუცი (ḳonpuci)
• German: Konfuzius m (Konfucius, Confucius), Konfutse m
• Greek: Κομφούκιος (el) m (Komfoúkios)
• Greenlandic: Konfusiusi
• Guaraní: Konfúsio
• Gujarati: કન્ફ્યુશિયસ (kanphyuśiyas)
• Hausa: Confucius
• Hebrew: קונפוציוס‎ m
• Hindi: कन्फ़्यूशियस m (kanfyūśiyas)
• 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 (khong cɨɨ), ខុង ជឺ (khong cɨɨ)
• Korean: 공자 (ko) (Gongja) (孔子 (ko)), 공부자 (Gongbuja) (孔夫子 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: Конфуций (Konfutsiy)
• Lao: ຂົງຈື້ (khong chư̄)
• Latin: Confucius (la) m
• Lithuanian: Konfucijus
• Macedonian: Конфу́чиј m (Konfúčij)
• Manchu: ᡴᡠᠩᡯᡳ (kungdzi)
• Mongolian: Күнз (Künz)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Konfutse m, Konfucius m

• Ossetian: Конфуций (Konfucij)
• Pennsylvania German: Konfyuschus
• Persian: کنفوسیوس‎ (konfusiyus)
• 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

• Sinhalese: කොන්ෆියුසියස් (konfiyusiyas)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Konfucius

  Upper Sorbian: Konfucius

• Spanish: Confucio m
• Swedish: Konfucius
• Tajik: Конфутсий (Konfutsiy)
• Tamil: கன்பூசியஸ் (kaṉpūciyas)
• Thai: ขงจื๊อ (th) (kǒng-jʉ́ʉ)
• Tibetan: ཁུང་ཙི (khung tsi)
• Turkish: Konfüçyüs
• Ukrainian: Конфу́цій m (Konfúcij)
• Uyghur: كۇڭزى‎ (kungzi)
• Uzbek: Konfutsiy
• Vietnamese: Khổng Tử (孔子), Khổng Phu Tử (孔夫子)
• Welsh: Conffiwsiws
• West Frisian: Konfusius
• Yiddish: קאָנפֿוציוס‎ (konfutsyus)
• Yoruba: Kọnfukiọsi
• Zealandic: Confucius
• Zhuang: Gungjswj

See also

• Laozi

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔnˈfy.si.ʏs/

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• Hyphenation: Con‧fu‧ci‧us

Proper noun

Confucius m

1. Confucius

Related terms

• confucianisme

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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

• Confūtius

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈfuː.ki.us/, [kõːˈfuː.ki.ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈfu.t͡ʃi.us/, [kɔnˈfuː.t͡ʃi.us]

Proper noun

Cōnfūcius m sg (genitive Cōnfūciī or Cōnfūcī); 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.

   • 1826, Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:

     Confucius aiebat...

     Confucius said...

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cōnfūcius
Genitive	Cōnfūciī Cōnfūcī1
Dative	Cōnfūciō
Accusative	Cōnfūcium
Ablative	Cōnfūciō
Vocative	Cōnfūcī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).