墨子 (Mòzǐ) · Mozi, founder of the Mohist school

Meanings

1 Mozi, founder of the Mohist school

About Mozi

c. 470–391 BC · 思想家 thinker

Thinker of the 5th century BC who founded the Mohist school, teaching 兼爱 (equal care for all) and 非攻 (no wars of aggression). China's first quantum satellite, launched in 2016, is named after him.

Also called 墨翟

Characters

master (honorific for philosophers)

Examples

HSK 7-9

墨子主张兼爱非攻。

Mòzǐ zhǔzhāng jiān'ài fēigōng.

Mozi advocated universal love and non-aggression.

HSK 7-9

中国第一颗量子卫星以墨子命名。

Zhōngguó dìyī kē liàngzǐ wèixīng yǐ Mòzǐ mìngmíng.

China's first quantum satellite was named after Mozi.

HSK 7-9

《墨子》是先秦重要的哲学典籍。

《 Mòzǐ 》 shì xiānqín zhòngyào de zhéxué diǎnjí.

The Mozi is an important philosophical text of the pre-Qin period.

Tips

usage

The idiom 墨守成规, 'to cling to old rules', began as praise: 墨守 meant Mozi's defence. He walked ten days to Chu and beat the engineer 鲁班 nine times in a mock siege, and Chu called off its attack on Song.