孔夫子
Kǒng fū zǐ
Pinyin

Definition

孔夫子
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Kǒng fū zǐ
  1. Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子[Kǒng zǐ]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

丈夫
zhàng fu
  1. 1 husband
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
儿子
ér zi
  1. 1 son
兔子
tù zi
  1. 1 hare
  2. 2 rabbit
  3. 3 classifier: 只 zhī
功夫
gōng fu
  1. 1 skill
  2. 2 art
  3. 3 kung fu
  4. 4 labor
  5. 5 effort
夫妻
fū qī
  1. 1 husband and wife
  2. 2 married couple

Idioms (20)

一夫当关，万夫莫开
yī fū dāng guān , wàn fū mò kāi
  1. 1 one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)
一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡
yī píng zi bù xiǎng , bàn píng zi huàng dang
  1. 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
一鼻孔出气
yī bí kǒng chū qì
  1. 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
  2. 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
不入虎穴，焉得虎子
bù rù hǔ xué , yān dé hǔ zǐ
  1. 1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
不见兔子不撒鹰
bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng
  1. 1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
  2. 2 one doesn't act without some incentive

Sample Sentences

反正我知道“三人行必有我师”是孔夫子的话。我爸经常用这句话教育我。
fǎnzhèng wǒ zhīdào “one can certainly be my teacher ”shì Kǒng fūzǐ de huà 。wǒ bà jīngcháng yòng zhè jù huà jiàoyù wǒ 。
Anyway, I know that ''Amongst three people walking, one can certainly be my teacher" is a Confucius saying. My dad often teaches me using this sentence.
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孔夫子说的是“三人行，必有我师焉。” “焉”在古文里才有。
Kǒng fūzǐ shuō de shì “sān rén xíng ，bì yǒu wǒ shī yān 。” “yān ”zài gǔwén lǐ cái yǒu 。
Confucius said, ''Amongst three people walking, one can certainly be my teacher. "Yan'' is only used in classical Chinese.
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