梅瑟

Méisè

proper noun #36,638

Meanings

1 Moses (Catholic transliteration; cf. Protestant 摩西 Móxī)

摩西 Móxī Moses · religious figure

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Examples

HSK 6

梅瑟带领以色列人离开埃及。

Méisè dàilǐng Yǐsèliè rén líkāi Āijí.

Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.

HSK 7-9

天主教把摩西译为梅瑟。

Tiānzhǔjiào bǎ Móxī yì wéi Méisè.

Catholicism renders Moses as Méisè.

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history

梅瑟 is the Catholic Chinese rendering of Moses, used in the Sigao Bible (《思高本》, 1968) - the standard Catholic Chinese Bible. The Protestant Union Version (《和合本》) uses 摩西 instead, which is the form most Mandarin speakers know. The split reflects different Latin/Greek source traditions: 梅瑟 follows the Latin Moyses, 摩西 follows the Greek Mōusēs.

Stroke Order

梅 méi

瑟 sè