mengzi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
name
A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.
name
A county-level city of Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "“Yunnan is a forgotten province, a piece of China mislaid by the world,” wrote the British novelist Stella Benson when she was living in Mengzi, not far from the Vietnamese border, in the 1920s."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
Meng-tzu (alternative)
Mengtsz (alternative, dated)
Mengtzu (alternative, dated)
Mongtze (alternative, obsolete)
Montze (alternative, obsolete)
Monse (alternative, obsolete)
Mungçu (alternative, obsolete)