| 孔圣人 |
Kǒng shèng rén |
the Sage Confucius |
| 孔 |
Kǒng |
surname Kong |
| 孔 |
kǒng |
hole / CL:个 / classifier for cave dwellings |
| 圣 |
kū |
(literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables) |
| 圣 |
shèng |
variant of 圣 |
| 圣 |
shèng |
(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc) / (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc) / (bound form) holy; sacred |
| 圣人 |
shèng rén |
sage / the Sage (i.e. Confucius) / (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty / (religion) saint |
| 人 |
rén |
person; people / CL:个,位,名 |