夫子

Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant

husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)

(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

(noun suffix)

appearing to be praising others while actually praising yourself / one's criticism of others exposes one's own faults

pedant / old fogey

Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子[Kong3 zi3]