姜子牙

Jiāng Zǐyá

proper noun

Meanings

1 Jiang Ziya (11th century BC), strategist who helped the Zhou overthrow the Shang dynasty

姜太公 Jiāngtàigōng Jiang Ziya · military leader

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

姜子牙帮助周武王打败了商朝。

Jiāng Zǐyá bāngzhù Zhōu Wǔwáng dǎbài le Shāngcháo.

Jiang Ziya helped King Wu of Zhou defeat the Shang.

HSK 7-9

传说姜子牙用直钩钓鱼，八十岁才遇到周文王。

Chuánshuō Jiāng Zǐyá yòng zhí gōu diàoyú, bāshí suì cái yùdào Zhōu Wénwáng.

Legend says Jiang Ziya fished with a straight hook and only met King Wen of Zhou when he was eighty.

Tips

usage

He goes by many names. His surname was 姜 and his clan 吕, so he is also 姜尚 and 吕尚; 子牙 was his courtesy name; and 太公望, "the one our grandfather hoped for", is what King Wen called him, which gave 姜太公.

culture

In the Ming novel 《封神演义》 he is the hero who, once the war is won, appoints the fallen of both sides as gods.

Stroke Order

姜 jiāng

子 zǐ

牙 yá