梁启超

梁啟超

Liáng Qǐchāo

proper noun

Meanings

1 Liang Qichao (1873-1929)
2 influential late-Qing reformer, journalist, and scholar

Characters

surname Liang; beam

to open, enlighten

Examples

HSK 6

他的文章在清末广为流传。

Tā de wénzhāng zài Qīng mò guǎng wéi liúchuán.

His essays circulated widely in the late Qing.

HSK 7-9

梁启超是戊戌变法的主要推动者之一。

Liáng Qǐchāo shì Wùxū biànfǎ de zhǔyào tuīdòng zhě zhīyī.

Liang Qichao was a leading driver of the Hundred Days' Reform.

Tips

history

Student of reformer 康有为 (Kang Youwei). After the failure of the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform, he fled to Japan and used the newspaper 新民丛报 to introduce Western political ideas and popularize terms still used today (e.g. 经济, 社会, 民主). His son 梁思成 (Liang Sicheng) became China's foremost architectural historian.

Stroke Order

梁 liáng

启 qǐ

超 chāo