契诃夫

契訶夫

Qìhēfū

proper noun #43,062

Meanings

1 Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian short-story writer and playwright

Characters

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Examples

HSK 4

契诃夫是俄国有名的短篇小说家。

Qìhēfū shì Éguó yǒumíng de duǎnpiān xiǎoshuōjiā.

Chekhov was a famous Russian short-story writer.

HSK 7-9

契诃夫本来是医生，他说医学是他的妻子，文学是他的情人。

Qìhēfū běnlái shì yīshēng, tā shuō yīxué shì tā de qīzi, wénxué shì tā de qíngrén.

Chekhov was a doctor by training; he said medicine was his wife and literature his mistress.

Tips

culture

Chinese schoolchildren know him from the stories 《变色龙》, 'The Chameleon', and 《装在套子里的人》, 'The Man in a Case', whose timid hero 贝里可夫 wraps himself and everything he owns in covers. His plays include 《海鸥》, The Seagull, 《万尼亚舅舅》, Uncle Vanya, and 《樱桃园》, The Cherry Orchard.

usage

Writers know 契诃夫之枪, Chekhov's gun: a gun hanging on the wall in the first act must go off by the last.

Stroke Order

契 qì

诃 hē

夫 fū