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桓温

桓溫
Huán Wēn
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Huan Wen (312–373), Eastern Jin general who led campaigns to the north and came to dominate the court

Examples

HSK 4
桓温是东晋的大将。
Huán Wēn shì Dōngjìn de dàjiàng.
Huan Wen was a great general of the Eastern Jin.
HSK 7-9
桓温北伐时看到自己年轻时种的柳树已经长得很粗，不禁流下了眼泪。
Huán Wēn běifá shí kàndào zìjǐ niánqīng shí zhòng de liǔshù yǐjing zhǎng de hěn cū, bùjīn liúxià le yǎnlèi.
On a northern campaign Huan Wen saw that the willows he had planted as a young man had grown thick, and he could not hold back his tears.

Tips

history
He took Sichuan in 347 and retook the old capital 洛阳 in 356. In his last years he controlled the court and deposed an emperor.
culture
The 《世说新语》 records his words at the willows, 木犹如此，人何以堪, 'if trees change like this, how can people bear it?' His biography in the 《晋书》 has him say that if he could not leave a good name for a hundred generations, he might as well leave a stench for ten thousand years, the source of 遗臭万年.

Stroke Order

桓 huán
温 wēn