Mengzi

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
  2. 2
    A county-level city of Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.

    "Since the Peasant Night School of Fine Arts in Hsinan Commune of Mengtzu County in Yunnan Province was set up in 1972, its students have created more than two hundred works of art and held four exhibitions of traditional Chinese paintings, New-Year pictures, scissor-cuts, wood carvings and clay sculptures."

  3. 3
    A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.

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mencius

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"Since the Peasant Night School of Fine Arts in Hsinan Commune of Mengtzu County in Yunnan Province was set up in 1972, its students have created more than two hundred works of art and held four exhibitions of traditional Chinese paintings, New-Year pictures, scissor-cuts, wood carvings and clay sculptures."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 蒙自 (Méngzì).

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