DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

埃爾金

简埃尔金 · 繁埃爾金

Mandarin · pinyin Āi ěr jīn

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園 in 1860
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

埃: āi · fine dust, dirt
爾: Look up this written character
金: jīn · gold; metals in general; money; Kangxi radical 167
尔: ěr · you; that, those; final particle

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

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–3–1 · Ai1 er3 jin1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

3character 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.

埃爾金 · find source passages ↗ · 埃尔金 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗