Confucius

English

Alternative forms

• K'ung-tzu
• Kongzi
• Kong Zi

Etymology

Borrowing 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, Konfucius
• 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)
• Uyghur: كۇڭزى‏‎ (kungzi)
• 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 Confuciī); 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...

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Confucius
genitive	Confuciī
dative	Confuciō
accusative	Confucium
ablative	Confuciō
vocative	Confucie