李德

Lǐ Dé

proper noun #51,639

Meanings

1 Li De - Chinese name of Otto Braun (1900-1974)
2 Comintern military adviser to the Chinese Communist Party 1932-1939

Characters

Li (surname) / plum

virtue / Germany (phonetic)

Examples

HSK 7-9

李德是共产国际派到中国的德国军事顾问。

Lǐ Dé shì Gòngchǎn Guójì pài dào Zhōngguó de Déguó jūnshì gùwèn.

Li De was the German military adviser sent to China by the Comintern.

HSK 7-9

李德的指挥失误导致了第五次反围剿的失败。

Lǐ Dé de zhǐhuī shīwù dǎozhì le dìwǔ cì fǎn wéi jiǎo de shībài.

Li De's command errors led to the failure of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement Campaign.

Tips

history

Otto Braun's disastrous fixed-position tactics in the Fifth Anti-Encirclement Campaign (1933-34) forced the Long March. He was sidelined at the Zunyi Conference (1935), which marked Mao Zedong's rise. Returned to East Germany in 1939.

Stroke Order

李 lǐ

德 dé