| 太公望 |
Tài gōng Wàng |
see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙 |
| 太 |
tài |
highest / greatest / too (much) / very / extremely |
| 太公 |
tài gōng |
great-grandfather / (old) grandfather / father |
| 公 |
gōng |
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) |
| 望 |
wàng |
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards |
| 望 |
wàng |
15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of 望 |