西顿

西頓
Xīdùn
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Meanings

  1. 1 Sidon (ancient Phoenician city, modern-day Lebanon)
  2. 2 Seton (transliteration of the English surname)

Examples

Xīdùn shì Líbānèn de yī zuò gǔchéng.
Sidon is an ancient city in Lebanon.
Ōunèisītè Tāngpǔsēn Xīdùn shì zhùmíng de dòngwù zuòjiā.
Ernest Thompson Seton was a famous animal-story writer.

Tips

culture
Most common reference: 西顿 (Sidon), one of the oldest cities in the world, mentioned throughout the Hebrew Bible and Homer. As a Western surname, it most famously refers to Ernest Thompson Seton, the Anglo-Canadian naturalist whose Wild Animals I Have Known (《知道野生动物》) was widely translated into Chinese.

Stroke Order

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