柳如是

Liǔ Rúshì

proper noun

Meanings

1 Liu Rushi (1618–1664), late Ming courtesan and poet, one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

柳如是是明末清初的女诗人。

Liǔ Rúshì shì Míngmò Qīngchū de nǚ shīrén.

Liu Rushi was a woman poet of the late Ming and early Qing.

HSK 7-9

清军攻下南京时，柳如是劝丈夫钱谦益和她一起投水殉国。

Qīngjūn gōngxià Nánjīng shí, Liǔ Rúshì quàn zhàngfu Qián Qiānyì hé tā yìqǐ tóushuǐ xùnguó.

When the Qing army took Nanjing, Liu Rushi urged her husband Qian Qianyi to drown himself with her for the fallen dynasty.

Tips

culture

Her husband dipped a hand in the pond and said the water was too cold, 水太冷, a line still quoted to mock people who back out of a principled stand; she tried to jump in and was held back. The historian 陈寅恪 spent his last years writing 《柳如是别传》, a long biography of her.

memory

She took the name 如是 "just so" from a line by 辛弃疾: "I see the green hills as charming; the green hills, I think, see me just so."

Stroke Order

柳 liǔ

如 rú

是 shì