太公
Chinese
too (much); very; extremely too (much); very; extremely; highest; greatest |
just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister | ||
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trad. (太公) | 太 | 公 | |
simp. #(太公) | 太 | 公 | |
anagram | 公太 |
Pronunciation
Noun
太公
- (dialectal) paternal great-grandfather (the father of one's paternal grandfather)
- 「自吾先君太公曰『當有聖人適周,周以興』。子真是邪?吾太公望子久矣。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
- “Zì wú xiānjūn tàigōng yuē ‘dāng yǒu shèngrén shì zhōu, zhōu yǐ xìng’. Zǐ zhēn shì yé? Wú tàigōng wàng zǐ jiǔ yǐ.” [Pinyin]
- “My lordly ancestor, my great-grandfather, himself had said: ‘Just when a sage comes to Zhou, Zhou will prosper.’ Are ye truly that one? My great-grandfather had hoped for you for a long time.”
「自吾先君太公曰『当有圣人适周,周以兴』。子真是邪?吾太公望子久矣。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) grand duke
- 姜太公 ― Jiāng Tàigōng ― Grand Duke Jiang
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) father of an official
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 曾祖父 (“great-grandfather (paternal grandfather's father)”) [map]
Derived terms
- 太公兵法
- 太公分豬肉/太公分猪肉 (tàigōngfēnzhūròu)
- 太公家教
- 太公望
- 太公釣魚/太公钓鱼
- 太公鼓刀
- 姜太公封神——漏了自己 (Jiāngtàigōng fēngshén, lòu liǎo zìjǐ)
- 姜太公釣魚——願者上鉤/姜太公钓鱼——愿者上钩 (Jiāngtàigōng diàoyú, yuàn zhě shànggōu)
- 酒太公
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