kǒng​fù

Kong Fu

  • created sense approved 孔鲋/孔鮒 · kǒng​fù · Kong Fu — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    孔鲋 / 孔鮒

    kǒng​fù

    Kong Fu

    A famous Confucian scholar of the late Qin Dynasty and the eighth-generation descendant of [[孔子|孔子|kong3 zi3]]. He is best known for hiding classic texts like the [[论语|論語|lun2 yu3]] inside the walls of his ancestral home to save them from the burning of books under the Qin emperor. He later served as a scholar and tutor to the rebel leader [[陈胜|陳勝|chen2 sheng4]].

    孔 (literal) → 孔 · kǒng · Kong 鲋 (literal) → 鲋/鮒 · fù · crucian carp

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