Neo-Confucian

comparative more Neo-Confucian · superlative most Neo-Confucian · alternative neo-Confucian

1. Of or relating to Neo-Confucianism.

   As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship.

   1956, Li Chien-lung, translated by Ssu-yu Teng and Jeremy Hills, The Political History of China, 1840-1928, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 145

plural Neo-Confucians · alternative neo-Confucian

1. An adherent of Neo-Confucianism.