| 孔 |
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 |
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 |