谭嗣同

譚嗣同

Tán Sìtóng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Tan Sitong (1865-1898), late Qing reformer and thinker, executed as one of the Six Gentlemen of the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform

Characters

to inherit, heir

Examples

HSK 7-9

谭嗣同是戊戌六君子之一。

Tán Sìtóng shì Wùxū liù jūnzǐ zhīyī.

Tan Sitong was one of the Six Gentlemen of the 1898 Reform.

HSK 7-9

谭嗣同为变法流血牺牲。

Tán Sìtóng wèi biànfǎ liúxuè xīshēng.

Tan Sitong shed his blood as a martyr for reform.

Tips

history

When the 1898 戊戌变法 (Hundred Days' Reform) collapsed under Empress Dowager Cixi's coup, Tan refused to flee, saying that no country has achieved reform without bloodshed and offering to be the first in China to die for it. His philosophical work 《仁学》 (On Benevolence) fused Confucian, Buddhist, and Western ideas.

Stroke Order

谭 tán

嗣 sì

同 tóng