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Photo
Harvey Milk shakes hands with George Moscone April 1978
By
Bob McLeod
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米尔克

米爾克
Mǐ'ěrkè
proper noun #20,332

Meanings

  1. 1 Milk
  2. 2 Harvey Milk (American gay rights activist)

About Harvey Milk

1930–1978 · 政治家 politician

San Francisco city supervisor elected in 1977, one of the first openly gay people to win public office in the United States. He was shot dead at City Hall the next year; Sean Penn played him in the film Milk.

Also called  哈维·米尔克

Examples

HSK 6
Hāwéi Mǐ'ěrkè shì Měiguó lìshǐ shàng shǒuwèi gōngkāi tóngxìngliàn shēnfèn de dāngxuǎn guānyuán zhīyī.
Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay elected officials in American history.
HSK 7-9
Mǐ'ěrkè yú 1978 nián zài Jiùjīnshān shìzhèngtīng yùcì shēnwáng.
Milk was assassinated at San Francisco City Hall in 1978.

Tips

usage
米尔克 is primarily used as a phonetic transliteration of the English surname 'Milk'. Without context, it does not carry the meaning of the dairy product (牛奶 or 奶).

In Pop Culture

哈维·米尔克 Hāwéi Mǐ'ěrkè
Harvey Milk
American gay rights activist and San Francisco city supervisor, assassinated in 1978; subject of the 2008 biopic 'Milk' starring Sean Penn.

Stroke Order

米 mǐ
尔 ěr
克 kè