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| tyle="background:#ccf; border-bottom:2px solid" align=center colspan=2|Mencius |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Ancestral name (姓): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Ji (Chinese: 姬 ; Pinyin: Jī) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Clan name (氏): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Meng¹ (Ch: 孟 ; Py: Mng) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Given name (名): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Ke (Ch: 軻 ; Py: Kē) |
| lign=right style="border-top:3px solid"|Courtesy name (字): | style="border-top:3px solid"|Unknown² |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Posthumous name (謚): | style="border-top:1px solid"|Master Meng the Second
Sage³ |
| lign=right | | (Ch: 亞聖孟子 ;
Py: Yshng Mngzǐ) |
| lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"|Styled: | style="border-top:1px solid"|Master Meng 4 |
| lign=right| | (Ch: 孟子; Py: Mngzǐ) |
olspan=2 align=left style="border-top:3px solid"|1 The original clan name was Mengsun (孟孫), but was
shortened into Meng (孟), before or after Mencius's life,
it is not possible to say. |
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olspan=2 align=left |2 Traditionally, his courtesy name was assumed to be Ziche
(子車), sometimes incorrectly written as Ziyu (子輿) or Ziju
(子居), but recent scholarly works show that these courtesy
names appeared in the 3rd century AD and apply to another
historical figure named Meng Ke who also lived in Chinese
antiquity and was mistaken for Mencius. |
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olspan=2 align=left |3 I.e. the 2nd sage after Confucius. Posthumous name given in
1530 by Emperor Jiajing. In the two centuries preceding 1530,
the posthumous name was "The Second Sage Duke of Zou"
(鄒國亞聖公) which is still the name that can be seen carved
in the Mencius ancestral temple in Zoucheng. |
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| olspan=2 align=left |4Romanized as Mencius. |