堂吉诃德

堂吉訶德

Tángjíhēdé

proper noun #30,604

Meanings

1 Don Quixote
2 title character of Cervantes' novel; figuratively, an idealistic dreamer who tilts at windmills

Characters

hall (here phonetic Don)

auspicious (here: -qui-)

to scold (here: -xo-)

virtue (here: -te)

Examples

HSK 7-9

塞万提斯的《堂吉诃德》是西班牙文学的瑰宝。

Sàiwàntísī de 《 Tángjíhēdé 》 shì Xībānyá wénxué de guībǎo.

Cervantes' Don Quixote is a treasure of Spanish literature.

HSK 7-9

他像堂吉诃德一样和风车搏斗。

Tā xiàng Tángjíhēdé yíyàng hé fēngchē bódòu.

He fights with windmills like Don Quixote.

Tips

culture

Phonetic transliteration of "Don Quixote": 堂 (Don, Spanish honorific) + 吉 (-qui-) + 诃 (-xo-) + 德 (-te). The Cervantes novel (1605/1615) was first translated into Chinese in 1922 by Lin Shu and Chen Jialin. 堂吉诃德式 (Don-Quixote-style) is now a Chinese idiom for futile, idealistic crusades - the same English-language metaphor of "tilting at windmills."

In Pop Culture

《堂吉诃德》《 Tángjíhēdé 》

Don Quixote (novel)

Two-volume novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615), often called the first modern European novel.

Stroke Order

堂 táng

吉 jí

诃 hē

德 dé