DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

吾爾開希

简吾尔开希 · 繁吾爾開希

Mandarin · pinyin Wú ěr kāi xī

Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

吾: wú · i, my, our; resist, impede
爾: Look up this written character
開: kāi · open; initiate, begin, start
希: xī · rare; hope, expect, strive for
尔: ěr · you; that, those; final particle
开: kāi · open; initiate, begin, start

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–3–1–1 · Wu2 er3 kai1 xi1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

吾爾開希 · find source passages ↗ · 吾尔开希 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗