Zengzi

Zengzi
As depicted in Half Portraits of the Great Sage and Virtuous Men of Old (至聖先賢半身像), housed in the National Palace Museum
Chinese	曾子
Hanyu Pinyin	Zēngzǐ
Literal meaning	"Master Zēng"
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zēngzǐ Bopomofo ㄗㄥ   ㄗˇ Gwoyeu Romatzyh Tzengtzyy Wade–Giles Tsêng1 Tzŭ3 Yale Romanization Dzēngdž IPA [tsə́ŋ.tsɹ̩̀] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jāngjí Jyutping Zang1zi2 IPA [tsáŋ.tsǐ] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Chan-chú Tâi-lô Tsan-tsú Old Chinese Baxter–Sagart (2014) *[ts]ˤəŋ tsəʔ
Zeng Shen
Traditional Chinese	曾參
Simplified Chinese	曾参
Hanyu Pinyin	Zēng Shēn
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zēng Shēn Bopomofo ㄗㄥ   ㄕㄣ Gwoyeu Romatzyh Tzeng Shen Wade–Giles Tsêng1 Shên1 Yale Romanization Dzēng Shēn IPA [tsə́ŋ ʂə́n] Old Chinese Baxter–Sagart (2014) *[ts]ˤəŋ srum

Zeng Shen (505–435 BC), better known as Zengzi (Master Zeng), courtesy name Ziyu (子輿), was a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius.^[1] He later taught Zisi (Kong Ji), the grandson of Confucius, who was in turn the teacher of Mencius, thus beginning a line of transmitters of orthodox Confucian traditions.^[1] He is revered as one of the Four Sages of Confucianism.^[2]