西顿

西頓
Xīdùn
proper noun #34,850

Meanings

  1. 1 Sidon (ancient Phoenician city, modern-day Lebanon)
  2. 2 Seton

Examples

HSK 5
Xīdùn shì Líbānèn de yí zuò gǔchéng.
Sidon is an ancient city in Lebanon.
HSK 7-9
Ōunèisītè · Tāngpǔsēn · Xīdùn shì zhùmíng de dòngwù zuòjiā.
Ernest Thompson Seton was a famous animal-story writer.

Tips

culture
Most common reference: 西顿 (Sidon), one of the oldest cities in the world, mentioned throughout the Hebrew Bible and Homer. As a Western surname, it most famously refers to Ernest Thompson Seton, the Anglo-Canadian naturalist whose Wild Animals I Have Known (《我所知道的野生动物》) was widely translated into Chinese.

Stroke Order

西 xī
顿 dùn