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丹泽尔

丹澤爾
Dānzé'ěr
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Meanings

  1. 1 Denzel (transliteration of the English given name; most famously Denzel Washington, American actor born 1954)

Examples

丹泽尔·华盛顿是好莱坞最受尊敬的演员之一。
Dānzé'ěr Huáshèngdùn shì Hǎoláiwù zuì shòu zūnjìng de yǎnyuán zhī yī.
Denzel Washington is one of the most respected actors in Hollywood.
我最喜欢丹泽尔主演的《训练日》。
Wǒ zuì xǐhuān Dānzé'ěr zhǔyǎn de 《Xùnliàn Rì》.
My favorite Denzel film is Training Day.

Tips

memory
三-character carve-up of 'Den-zel': 丹 (dān, 'red/cinnabar') for 'Den-', 泽 (zé, 'marsh/lustre') for '-zel', 尔 (ěr) is the standard suffix for the English consonant-cluster '-l'. The same '-尔' shows up in 哈尔 (Howl), 比尔 (Bill), 卡尔 (Karl) — train your eye to read it as 'final L'.
culture
Denzel Washington won Best Actor for 《训练日》 (Training Day, 2001) and Best Supporting Actor for 《光荣战役》 (Glory, 1989). His full name in Chinese is 丹泽尔·华盛顿 — note the middle dot · used for foreign names.

Stroke Order

丹 dān
泽 zé
尔 ěr