Benito Mussolini, photo 1 of 3
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Benito Mussolini studeert voor onderwijzer en journalist, SFA022003159
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墨索里尼

Mòsuǒlǐní
proper noun #26,127

Meanings

  1. 1 Mussolini (Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator)

About Benito Mussolini

1883–1945 · 政治家 politician

Founder of Italian Fascism who ruled Italy as dictator from 1922 to 1943 and took it into the Second World War on the side of Hitler's Germany. Italian partisans captured and shot him in 1945.

Examples

HSK 7-9
Mòsuǒlǐní shì Yìdàlì lìshǐ shàng de fǎxīsī dúcáizhě.
Mussolini was a fascist dictator in Italian history.
HSK 7-9
Èrzhàn qījiān, Mòsuǒlǐní yǔ Xītèlè jiéméng.
During World War II, Mussolini allied with Hitler.

Tips

culture
The word fascism, first used by his movement, came into Chinese by sound as 法西斯. An older rendering translated it instead: 棒喝主义, 'stick-and-shout-ism', after the bundle of rods, the fasces, that gave fascism its name.

Stroke Order

墨 mò
索 suǒ
里 lǐ
尼 ní