儒家

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 儒家, read じゅか, can denote a Confucian scholar or the Confucian school.
• Basic usage: その儒家は説いた identifies an individual teacher; 儒家の思想 identifies a school of thought compared with others.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Individual scholar and philosophical school
  • A speaking person selects scholar, while 思想 and comparison with other schools select the tradition as a whole.