马礼逊

馬禮遜
Mǎlǐxùn
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Robert Morrison (1782-1834), Scottish Presbyterian missionary, the first Protestant missionary to China

Examples

Mǎlǐxùn biānzuǎn le dì-yī bù Hàn-Yīng cídiǎn.
Robert Morrison compiled the first Chinese–English dictionary.
Mǎlǐxùn yěshì 《Shèngjīng》 Zhōngwén yìběn de zhǔyào yìzhě.
Morrison was also the principal translator of the Chinese Bible.

Tips

history
Sent by the London Missionary Society in 1807. He worked in Canton (today's Guangzhou) and Macao under heavy Qing restrictions, producing the six-volume 《字典》 — a foundational reference for every Westerner who learned Chinese after him.

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