DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

巴德爾

简巴德尔 · 繁巴德爾

Mandarin · pinyin Bā dé ěr

Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology
Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

巴: bā · greatly desire, anxiously hope
德: dé · ethics, morality, virtue
爾: Look up this written character
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

1–2–3 · Ba1 de2 er3

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.

巴德爾 · find source passages ↗ · 巴德尔 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗