第十二夜

Dì-shí'èr yè
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken identity

Examples

HSK 6
《 Dì-shí'èr yè 》 shì Shāshìbǐyà de yí bù xǐjù.
Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's comedies.
HSK 7-9
Zài 《 Dì-shí'èr yè 》 lǐ, nǚzhǔjué nǚbàn-nánzhuāng, jiéguǒ yǐnqǐ le hěnduō wùhuì.
In Twelfth Night the heroine disguises herself as a man, which causes all kinds of misunderstandings.

Tips

history
Written around 1601. Shipwrecked in 伊利里亚 (Illyria), 维奥拉 (Viola) dresses as a young man and serves Duke Orsino. She falls for him, while the countess Olivia, whom he is courting, falls for her.
usage
第 turns a number into an ordinal: 十二 'twelve', 第十二 'twelfth'. Twelfth Night is the last night of the Christmas holidays, a time of feasting and misrule.

Stroke Order

第 dì
十 shí
二 èr
夜 yè