Janusz Korczak, photo 1 of 2
Janusz Korczak, photo 2 of 2

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Janusz Korczak (cropped)
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Dom Sierot orkiestra pod batutą Janusza Korczaka 1923
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科扎克

Kēzhākè
proper noun #29,354

Meanings

  1. 1 Korczak (surname)
  2. 2 Janusz Korczak (Polish educator and children's rights advocate)

About Janusz Korczak

c. 1878–1942 · 教育家 educator

Polish-Jewish doctor, children's author and educator who ran an orphanage in Warsaw. In 1942 he refused offers of rescue and went with his orphans to their deaths at Treblinka.

Also called  雅努什·科扎克

Characters

Phonetic transliteration of the Polish/Yiddish surname Korczak.

Examples

HSK 4
Kēzhākè shì Bōlán zhùmíng de értóng jiàoyù jiā.
Korczak was a famous Polish children's educator.
HSK 6
Kēzhākè péibàn gū'éryuàn de háizimen yìqǐ zǒujìn le jízhōngyíng.
Korczak accompanied the orphanage children into the concentration camp.

Tips

culture
Korczak is a pen name: he was born Henryk Goldszmit and borrowed it from a novel by the Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. Polish 'cz' sounds like English 'ch', which is why the middle syllable is 扎.

Stroke Order

科 kē
扎 zhā
克 kè