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Mo-Zi

Meaning of "Mo-Zi" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MO-ZI

ˈməʊˈtsiː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MO-ZI

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mo-Zi is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MO-ZI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Mo-Zi in the English dictionary

The definition of Mo-Zi in the dictionary is ?470–?391 bc, Chinese religious philosopher; his teaching, expounded in the book Mo-Zi, emphasizes love, frugality, avoidance of aggressive war, and submission to Heaven.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MO-ZI

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MO-ZI

MNE · mneme · mnemic · mnemon · mnemonic · mnemonical · mnemonically · mnemonics · mnemonist · Mnemosyne · mnemotechnic · mnemotechnist · mo · Mo Bro · Mo-tzu · Mo. · moa · moa hunter · Moab · Moabite

WORDS THAT END LIKE MO-ZI

Kong Zi · Lao Zi · Xun Zi

Synonyms and antonyms of Mo-Zi in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Mo-Zi» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

莫梓
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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Mo- Zi
570 millions of speakers
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English

Mo-Zi
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

मो जि
380 millions of speakers
ar

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مو زي
280 millions of speakers
ru

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Пн- Цзы
278 millions of speakers
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Mo- Zi
270 millions of speakers
bn

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মো-Zi থেকে
260 millions of speakers
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Mo- Zi
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Mo-Zi
190 millions of speakers
de

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Mo - Zi
180 millions of speakers
ja

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のMo - Ziを
130 millions of speakers
ko

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모 - 닫아
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Mo-Zi
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Mo- Zi
80 millions of speakers
ta

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மோ-பிளாக்
75 millions of speakers
mr

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मो-झी
75 millions of speakers
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Mo-Zi
70 millions of speakers
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Mo- Zi
65 millions of speakers
pl

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Mo- Zi
50 millions of speakers
uk

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Пн - Цзи
40 millions of speakers
ro

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Mo- Zi
30 millions of speakers
el

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Μο - Zi
15 millions of speakers
af

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Mo- Zi
14 millions of speakers
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Mo - Zi
10 millions of speakers
no

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Mo - Zi
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MO-ZI»

Discover the use of Mo-Zi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Mo-Zi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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墨子全譯:
As can be seen, Mo Zi's argument against Fatalism is very simple. To a significant extent, the simplicity is a result of Mo Zi's failure to provide, in any of the essays, a clear exposition of what Fate actually is or might be. The discussion is really ...
Di Mo, 2010
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THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
Li, Yushu 李漁叔(1974), Mo-Zi-Jin-Zhu-Jin-Yi 《墨子今註今譯》[Mo-Zi: Contemporary Notes and Paraphrase], Taipei: Tai-Wan-Shang-Wu. Lowe, Scott ( 1992), Mo Tzu's Religious Blueprint for a Chinese Utopia, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen. Lum ...
Bo Mou, 2008
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Natural Law Modernized
For Mo Zi, only in a political society can people reach a general agreement on what is the right (Yi), which in turn governs the society. Mo Zi advocates a theory of general agreement in sorting out the governing principles of Yi (righteousness) .
David Braybrooke, 2003
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Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics
According to Mo Zi, with the sole exception of the Son of Heaven, everyone should have a superior to obey. At the very bottom are the commoners who were supposed to benefit from this system. Like Confucius, Mo Zi believed as long as the ...
Zhengyuan Fu, 1993
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Leadership, Spirituality and the Common Good: East and West ...
Mo Zi, a philosopher, smoothes over Confucian hierarchic love with his thought of universal love. Mo Zi holds that the unrest and discord in the world are “all caused by lack of mutual love”8 He therefore advocates “universal and mutual love, ...
Henri Claude de Bettignies, Mike J. Thompson, 2010
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Time, Science, and Society in China and the West
Summary Views of time and space held by adherents of the Mohist school appear in six chapters of the Mo Zi f ), known as the "Mohist canons," " Explanations of the canons," "Major illustrations," and "Minor illustrations." They were compiled ca ...
Julius Thomas Fraser, Nathaniel Morris Lawrence, Francis C. Haber, 1986
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China's Legalists: The Earliest Totalitarians and Their Art ...
If there were universal love in the world, the states would not invade other states, families would not steal from other families . . . then the world would be well ordered" (Mo Zi, jian-ai a). Mo Zi thought that countries went to war also because of ...
Zhengyuan Fu, 1996
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One Hundred Philosophers
MAIN INFLUENCES K'ung fu-zi, Lao- NFLUENCED Later Mohists Mo-zi (Mo-tzu or Mo-di) was born in the kingdom Lu, though he spent his life travelling. He seems to have started out as a Confucian, and certainly shared K'ung fu- zi's love of ...
Peter J. King, 2006
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The Wisdom of Zhuang Zi on Daoism:
369 -286 B.C.) lived nearly one hundred twenty years after Mo Zi (ca. 490-403 B.C.). So, "to this day" in the last sentence of this paragraph means in Zhuang Zi's time, or nearly 120 years after Mo Zi's death. The three well-known arguments ...
Zhuangzi, Chung Wu, 2008
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PHILOSOPHY -- One Man's Overview
Mo Zi is the honorific name of Mo Di (଎ֵ, c. 468 – 376 BC). He was a generation younger than Confucius. During the period of Chun-Qiu when there were many schools of thought, his teaching, Moism (଎⇥), was competitive with Confucianism ...
Robert K. Wen, 2014

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MO-ZI»

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Fighting malaria from all angles
“Last year we signed the Zam-Zim Malaria initiative with Zambia and the Mo-Zi-Za - which includes Mozambique and South Africa - to ... «The Zimbabwean, May 14»
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A Place of One's Own 一席之地
Musician Mo-zi (Mo Tzu-yi) is a washed-up guitarist and singer forced to distribute his band's album himself. To make things worse, his live-in ... «China Post, Oct 09»
REFERENCE
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