塞西尔

塞西爾
Sàixī'ěr
proper noun #34,666

Meanings

  1. 1 Cecil; Cécile

Examples

HSK 4
Tā gěi nǚ'ér qǔmíng jiào Sàixī'ěr.
She named her daughter Cecil/Cécile.
HSK 7-9
Sàixī'ěr · Luódésī shì Yīngguó zhímín shíqī de zhùmíng rénwù.
Cecil Rhodes was a famous figure of the British colonial period.

Tips

culture
Most famous bearer in Chinese textbooks is 塞西尔·罗德斯 (Cecil Rhodes, 1853-1902), British mining magnate behind De Beers and the Rhodes Scholarship (罗德奖学金). 塞 here is read sài (4th tone), not sāi or sè.

Stroke Order

塞 sāi
西 xī
尔 ěr