普里莫

Pǔlǐmò

proper noun #34,322

Meanings

1 Primo (Italian/Spanish given name meaning 'first' - most notably Italian writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, 1919-1987)

Characters

general, common (phonetic 'pu')

inside (phonetic 'li')

do not (phonetic 'mo')

Examples

HSK 4

普里莫·莱维写过《活在奥斯维辛》。

Pǔlǐmò · Láiwéi xiě guò 《 Huó zài Àosīwéixīn 》.

Primo Levi wrote If This Is a Man (lit. 'Living in Auschwitz').

HSK 5

意大利作家普里莫的作品很有深度。

Yìdàlì zuòjiā Pǔlǐmò de zuòpǐn hěn yǒu shēndù.

The Italian writer Primo's works are very profound.

Tips

culture

Mandarin transliteration of 'Primo' - most often the Italian writer Primo Levi (普里莫·莱维), chemist and Holocaust survivor whose memoir 《如果这是一个人》 (Se questo è un uomo / If This Is a Man) is a classic of 20th-century literature. The name itself is Italian/Spanish for 'first.'

memory

Sound it out: 普 ('common') + 里 ('inside') + 莫 ('do not'). Pure phonetic - no semantic content in the Chinese.

Stroke Order

普 pǔ

里 lǐ

莫 mò