擎天柱 (Qíngtiānzhù) · Optimus Prime (leader of the Autobots…

Meanings

1 Optimus Prime (leader of the Autobots in Transformers)
2 (literally) pillar that holds up the sky; mainstay (figurative)

About Optimus Prime

文学人物 fictional character

Leader of the Autobots, the good robots of the cartoons, toys and films 变形金刚 (Transformers), who turns into a truck. The cartoon reached Chinese TV in the late 1980s and made him a childhood hero.

Also called 柯博文

Characters

Examples

HSK 1

孩子们都很喜欢擎天柱。

Háizimen dōu hěn xǐhuan Qíngtiānzhù.

Kids all love Optimus Prime.

HSK 7-9

擎天柱是变形金刚的领袖。

Qíngtiānzhù shì Biànxíng Jīngāng de lǐngxiù.

Optimus Prime is the leader of the Transformers.

Tips

memory

The rare 擎 'hold up high' also turns up in 引擎 'engine', a sound loan from English: a handy hook for a hero who turns into a truck. On the mainland his enemy Megatron is 威震天, 'might that shakes the sky'.