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K'ung Fu-tse

British  
/ ˈkʊŋ ˈfuːˈtseɪ /

noun

  1. the Chinese name of Confucius

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Stripped of their disguise they appear respectively as K'ung Fu-tse and Meng-tse.

From The Awakening of China by W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) Martin

Could one have forced the great K’ung Fu-tse to become a philosopher at the point of a sword?”

From What The Left Hand Was Doing by Kelly Freas

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