元让

元讓
Yuánràng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Yuanrang, courtesy name (字) of Xiahou Dun 夏侯惇 (?–220), Three Kingdoms general under Cao Cao

Examples

Xià hóu Dūn, zì Yuánràng, shì Cáocāo zuì xìnrèn de dàjiàng zhīyī.
Xiahou Dun, courtesy name Yuanrang, was one of Cao Cao's most trusted generals.
《 Sānguó yǎnyì 》 lǐ Yuánràng zài zhànchǎng shàng bèi shè xiā le yì zhī yǎn.
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Yuanrang is blinded in one eye on the battlefield.

Tips

culture
元让 is Xiahou Dun's (courtesy name) — classical Chinese texts and Three Kingdoms fiction often use the instead of the given name as a mark of respect.
history
The famous 'swallow his own eyeball' scene () in 《三国演义》 is novelistic — the historical Xiahou Dun did lose an eye to an arrow, but the eating part is pure fiction.

Stroke Order

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