维特

維特

Wéitè

noun #25,371

Meanings

1 Werther / Victor / Vito

Characters

transliteration: Wer-/Vi-; also means to maintain

transliteration: -ther/-tor; also means special

Examples

HSK 3

维特是班上成绩最好的学生。

Wéitè shì bān shàng chéngjì zuìhǎo de xuésheng.

Werther is the best-performing student in the class.

HSK 7-9

《少年维特之烦恼》是歌德的名作。

《 Shàonián Wéitè zhī Fánnǎo 》 shì Gēdé de míngzuò.

The Sorrows of Young Werther is a famous work by Goethe.

Tips

culture

维特 is most famously associated with 少年维特之烦恼 (The Sorrows of Young Werther), Goethe's 1774 epistolary novel. After its publication in China in 1922, it became enormously influential.

Stroke Order

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