塞西尔

塞西爾

Sàixī'ěr

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Meanings

1 Cecil / Cécile (transliteration of the English/French given name and surname)

Characters

frontier (phonetic 'Ce-')

west (phonetic '-ci-')

you (phonetic '-l')

Examples

塞西尔·罗德斯是英国殖民时期的著名人物。

Sàixī'ěr Luódésī shì Yīngguó zhímín shíqī de zhùmíng rénwù.

Cecil Rhodes was a famous figure of the British colonial period.

她给女儿取名叫塞西尔。

Tā gěi nǚ'ér qǔ míng jiào Sàixī'ěr.

She named her daughter Cecil/Cécile.

Tips

culture

Most famous bearer in Chinese textbooks is 塞西尔·罗德斯 (Cecil Rhodes, 1853-1902), British mining magnate behind De Beers and the Rhodes Scholarship (罗德奖学金). 塞 here is read sài (4th tone), not sāi or sè.

Stroke Order

塞 sāi

西 xī

尔 ěr