noun:

• Mencius (372-289 BCE); Mengzi
• Mencius (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) - abbreviation ➜ 孟宗竹

noun:

• beginning of winter - obsolete term
• tenth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• root of a moso bamboo ➜ 孟宗竹

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning

noun:

• moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens); tall bamboo cultivated for its edible shoots

noun:

• beginning of summer
• fourth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

noun:

• beginning of autumn - obsolete term
• seventh month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• beginning of spring
• first month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term

noun:

• eldest daughter - obscure term ➜ 長女

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機