儒家 meaning and pronunciation

儒家
Simplified/traditional word

儒家 English definition

rú jiā

  • Confucianism
  • Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] (c. 372-c. 289 BC)

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Characters

  • (rú): Confucianism
  • (jiā): home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4];