# Mengzi
## English
### Alternative forms

* Meng-tzu (Wade–Giles)

### Pronunciation

* enPR: mǔngʹdzûʹ

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).

#### Proper noun

Mengzi
* The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
* A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.

##### Usage notes

Preceded by the definite article (the) when distinguishing the book from the philosopher.

##### Synonyms

* Mencius

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 482: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Meng-tzu (Mengzi) 孟子”

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 蒙自 (Méngzì).

#### Alternative forms

* Mengtsz, Mengtzu (dated)

#### Proper noun

Mengzi
* A county-level city in Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.
** [1975, “A Peasant Night School of Fine Arts”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], number 5, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:Since the Peasant Night School of Fine Arts in Hsinan Commune of Mengtzu County in Yunnan Province was set up in 1972, its students have created more than two hundred works of art and held four exhibitions of traditional Chinese paintings, New-Year pictures, scissor-cuts, wood carvings and clay sculptures.]
** 2022 April 23, “World Book Day marked across China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎, archived from the original on 23 April 2022‎:People read at a library on World Book Day in Mengzi, Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe in southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 23, 2022.
** 2024 June 22, Peter Neville-Hadley, “‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2024, Travel‎:“Yunnan is a forgotten province, a piece of China mislaid by the world,” wrote the British novelist Stella Benson when she was living in Mengzi, not far from the Vietnamese border, in the 1920s.

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Mengzi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1951, column 1

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Mandarin 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeŋːzi/, [ˈme̞ŋːzi]
* Rhymes: -eŋːzi
* Hyphenation: Meng‧zi

### Proper noun

Mengzi
* Mencius (Chinese philosopher)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of Mengzi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Mengzini
accusative
nom.
Mengzini
gen.
Mengzini
genitive
Mengzini
partitive
Mengziäni
inessive
Mengzissäni
elative
Mengzistäni
illative
Mengziini
adessive
Mengzilläni
ablative
Mengziltäni
allative
Mengzilleni
essive
Mengzinäni
translative
Mengzikseni
abessive
Mengzittäni
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Mengzisi
accusative
nom.
Mengzisi
gen.
Mengzisi
genitive
Mengzisi
partitive
Mengziäsi
inessive
Mengzissäsi
elative
Mengzistäsi
illative
Mengziisi
adessive
Mengzilläsi
ablative
Mengziltäsi
allative
Mengzillesi
essive
Mengzinäsi
translative
Mengziksesi
abessive
Mengzittäsi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Mengzimme
accusative
nom.
Mengzimme
gen.
Mengzimme
genitive
Mengzimme
partitive
Mengziämme
inessive
Mengzissämme
elative
Mengzistämme
illative
Mengziimme
adessive
Mengzillämme
ablative
Mengziltämme
allative
Mengzillemme
essive
Mengzinämme
translative
Mengziksemme
abessive
Mengzittämme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Mengzinne
accusative
nom.
Mengzinne
gen.
Mengzinne
genitive
Mengzinne
partitive
Mengziänne
inessive
Mengzissänne
elative
Mengzistänne
illative
Mengziinne
adessive
Mengzillänne
ablative
Mengziltänne
allative
Mengzillenne
essive
Mengzinänne
translative
Mengziksenne
abessive
Mengzittänne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Mengzinsä
accusative
nom.
Mengzinsä
gen.
Mengzinsä
genitive
Mengzinsä
partitive
Mengziään Mengziänsä
inessive
Mengzissään Mengzissänsä
elative
Mengzistään Mengzistänsä
illative
Mengziinsä
adessive
Mengzillään Mengzillänsä
ablative
Mengziltään Mengziltänsä
allative
Mengzilleen Mengzillensä
essive
Mengzinään Mengzinänsä
translative
Mengzikseen Mengziksensä
abessive
Mengzittään Mengzittänsä
instructive
comitative