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right style="border-top:1px solid"</b>¹<small> (Ch: </small>孟<small> Py: Mèng)</small>
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right style="border-top:1px solid" Given Name (名):style="border-top:1px solid"<b>Ke</b><small> (Ch: </small>軻<small> Py: Kē)</small>
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right style="border-top:3px solid" Courtesy Name (字):style="border-top:3px solid"Unknown²
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right style="border-top:1px solid" Posthumous Name (謚):style="border-top:1px solid"'''Master Meng the<br>Second Sage'''³
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right <small>(Ch: </small>亞聖孟子<small> <br>Py: Yàshèng Mèngzǐ)
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right style="border-top:1px solid"Styled:style="border-top:1px solid"<b>Master Meng</b> <small><sup><small>4
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right <small>(Ch: </small>孟子 <small>Py: Mèngzǐ)</small>
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2 align=left style="border-top:3px solid"<small><sup>'''1'''</sup> The original clan name was Mengsun (</small>孟孫<small>), but was<br>shortened into Meng (</small>孟<small>), before or after Mencius's life,<br>it is not possible to say
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2 align=left <small><sup>'''2'''</sup> Traditionally, his courtesy name was assumed to be Ziche<br>(</small>子車<small>), sometimes incorrectly written as Ziyu (</small>子輿<small>) or Ziju<br>(</small>子居<small>), but recent scholarly works show that these courtesy<br>names appeared in the 3rd Century CE and apply to another<br>historical figure named Meng Ke who also lived in Chinese<br>antiquity and was mistaken for Mencius
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2 align=left <small><sup>'''3'''</sup> That is, the second sage after Confucius Name given in<br> 1530 by Emperor Jiajing In the two centuries before 1530,<br>the posthumous name was "The Second Sage Duke of Zou"<br>(</small>鄒國亞聖公<small>) which is still the name that can be seen<br>carved in the Mencius ancestral temple in Zoucheng
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2 align=left <small><sup>'''4'''</sup> Romanized as Mencius
