西里尔

西里爾

Xīlǐ'ěr

proper noun #35,857

Meanings

1 Cyril (given name)
2 Saint Cyril (9th-century Christian missionary)
3 Cyrillic

Characters

(phonetic) -ri-

Examples

HSK 5

圣西里尔是斯拉夫文字的创造者之一。

Shèng Xīlǐ'ěr shì Sīlāfū wénzì de chuàngzàozhě zhīyī.

Saint Cyril was one of the creators of the Slavic script.

HSK 6

俄语使用西里尔字母。

Éyǔ shǐyòng Xīlǐ'ěr zìmǔ.

Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet.

Tips

history

Saint Cyril (827-869) and his brother Methodius were Byzantine missionaries who created the Glagolitic alphabet to translate scripture for the Slavs; the later Cyrillic alphabet (西里尔字母) used for Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian and others was named in Cyril's honor.

Stroke Order

西 xī

里 lǐ

尔 ěr