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孔夫子

Kǒng fū zǐ

3-character word

What 孔夫子 means

1. Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as {孔子|Kǒng zǐ}

The characters in 孔夫子

• 孔kǒnghole; classifier for cave dwellings
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

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