Zengzi

Zengzi
As depicted in Half Portraits of the Great Sage and Virtuous Men of Old (至聖先賢半身像), housed in the National Palace Museum
Chinese曾子
Hanyu PinyinZēngzǐ
Literal meaning"Master Zēng"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZēngzǐ
Bopomofoㄗㄥ   ㄗˇ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhTzengtzyy
Wade–GilesTsêng1 Tzŭ3
Yale RomanizationDzēngdž
IPA[tsə́ŋ.tsɹ̩̀]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJāngjí
JyutpingZang1zi2
IPA[tsáŋ.tsǐ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJChan-chú
Tâi-lôTsan-tsú
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*[ts]ˤəŋ tsəʔ
Zeng Shen
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu PinyinZēng Shēn
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZēng Shēn
Bopomofoㄗㄥ   ㄕㄣ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhTzeng Shen
Wade–GilesTsêng1 Shên1
Yale RomanizationDzēng Shēn
IPA[tsə́ŋ ʂə́n]
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*[ts]ˤəŋ srum

Zeng Shen (505–435 BC), better known as Zengzi (Master Zeng), courtesy name Ziyu (輿), was a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius.[1] He later taught Zisi (Kong Ji), the grandson of Confucius, who was in turn the teacher of Mencius, thus beginning a line of transmitters of orthodox Confucian traditions.[1] He is revered as one of the Four Sages of Confucianism.[2]

  1. ^ a b Huang 1997, p. 204.
  2. ^ Legge 2009, pp. 117–8.