孔子

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Chinese

Kong (surname) respectful suffix for a male
simp. and trad.
(孔子) 		孔 子
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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 孔 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 東 (1) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 康董切 即里切
Baxter khuwngX tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰuŋX/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰuŋX/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰuŋX/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰəwŋX/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong 		/kʰuŋX/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li 		/kʰuŋX/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰuŋX/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kǒng zǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hung2 zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 孔 子
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		kǒng zǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khuwngX › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʰˁoŋʔ/ /*tsəʔ/
English (surname) child; gentleman, master

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 孔 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 7489 17857
Phonetic
component 		孔 子
Rime
group 		東 之
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		孔 子
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰloːŋʔ/ /*ʔslɯʔ/
Notes 金文象就乳，與古候切從子殼聲字（說文乳也）同源

Proper noun

孔子

  1. Confucius

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (孔子):

Others:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
孔 子
こう
Grade: S 		し
Grade: 1
kan’on
Kanji in this term
孔 子
く
Grade: S 		し > じ
Grade: 1
goon
 孔子 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 孔子 (MC khuwngX tsiX).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

孔(こう)子(し) or 孔(く)子(じ) • (Kōshi or Kuji) 

  1. Confucius
    Synonym: 孔夫子 (Kō Fūshi)

See also

Korean

Hanja in this term
孔子

Proper noun

孔子 • (Gongja) (hangeul 공자)

  1. Hanja form? of 공자 (“Confucius”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
孔子

Proper noun

孔子

  1. chữ Hán form of Khổng Tử (“Confucius”).
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