元让 (Yuánràng) · Yuanrang, courtesy name (字) of Xiahou Dun…

Meanings

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

About Xiahou Dun

died 220 · 军事家 military leader

Courtesy name of 夏侯惇, one of 曹操's most trusted generals in the Three Kingdoms era. He lost an eye to an arrow; in 三国演义 he swallows the eye pulled out with it.

Also called 夏侯惇

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Examples

HSK 7-9

夏侯惇，字元让，是曹操最信任的大将之一。

Xiàhóu Dūn, zì Yuánràng, shì Cáo Cāo zuì xìnrèn de dàjiàng zhīyī.

Xiahou Dun, courtesy name Yuanrang, was one of Cao Cao's most trusted generals.

HSK 7-9

《三国演义》里元让在战场上被射瞎了一只眼。

《 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.

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culture

元让 is Xiahou Dun's 字 (courtesy name) - classical Chinese texts and Three Kingdoms fiction often use the 字 instead of the given name as a mark of respect.

history

The eye-eating scene, 拔矢啖睛, is the novel's invention: history records only the lost eye. That earned him the nickname 盲夏侯 'Blind Xiahou', which he hated so much that he would throw his mirror to the ground in anger.