Get to know Zhuangzi better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Zhuangzi in a sentence
Zhuangzi meaning
- An influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period.
- An ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher.
Using Zhuangzi
- The main meaning on this page is: An influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period. | An ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher.
Context around Zhuangzi
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Zhuangzi
- In this selection, "zhuangzi" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, leng, daoist, book, records and himself stand out and add context to how "zhuangzi" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as leng zhuangzi zh lacked and bce daoist zhuangzi records zuowang. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "zhuangzi" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with zhuangzi
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Herbert Giles uses the term metempsychosis in his translation of the butterfly dream from the Zhuangzi (book) (《莊子》). (18 words)
Foodservice establishments categorised as leng zhuangzi (Zh) lacked any rooms to host banquets, and thus their business was purely catering. (20 words)
First coined by Zhuangzi in the late 4th century BC, it was used to describe a way of life different from that of being actively involved in politics. (28 words)
Roth, Harold D. (1999), Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism, Columbia University Press, p. 92. The (c. 3rd century BCE) Daoist Zhuangzi records zuowang or "sitting forgetting" meditation. (34 words)
Academic publishers are more likely than others to adopt pinyin; Columbia University Press changed the titles of Burton Watson 's translations from "Chuang Tzu" to " Zhuangzi " and from "Han Fei Tzu" to " Hanfeizi ". (33 words)
The traditional view is that Zhuangzi himself wrote the first seven chapters (the "inner chapters") and his students and related thinkers were responsible for the other parts (the "outer" and "miscellaneous" chapters). (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
Academic publishers are more likely than others to adopt pinyin; Columbia University Press changed the titles of Burton Watson 's translations from "Chuang Tzu" to " Zhuangzi " and from "Han Fei Tzu" to " Hanfeizi ".
First coined by Zhuangzi in the late 4th century BC, it was used to describe a way of life different from that of being actively involved in politics.
Foodservice establishments categorised as leng zhuangzi (Zh) lacked any rooms to host banquets, and thus their business was purely catering.
Herbert Giles uses the term metempsychosis in his translation of the butterfly dream from the Zhuangzi (book) (《莊子》).
Roth, Harold D. (1999), Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism, Columbia University Press, p. 92. The (c. 3rd century BCE) Daoist Zhuangzi records zuowang or "sitting forgetting" meditation.
The traditional view is that Zhuangzi himself wrote the first seven chapters (the "inner chapters") and his students and related thinkers were responsible for the other parts (the "outer" and "miscellaneous" chapters).