西里尔

西里爾

Xīlǐ'ěr

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Meanings

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

Characters

(phonetic) -ri-

Examples

俄语使用西里尔字母。

Éyǔ shǐyòng Xīlǐ'ěr zìmǔ.

Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet.

圣西里尔是斯拉夫文字的创造者之一。

Shèng Xīlǐ'ěr shì Sīlāfū wénzì de chuàngzào zhě zhīyī.

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

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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