DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

李開復

简李开复 · 繁李開復

Mandarin · pinyin Lǐ Kāi fù

Kai-Fu Lee (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, founding president of Google China 2005-2009

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

李: lǐ · plum; judge; surname
開: kāi · open; initiate, begin, start
復: Look up this written character
开: kāi · open; initiate, begin, start
复: fù · return; repeat; repeatedly

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

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

3–1–4 · Li3 Kai1 fu4

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.

李開復 · find source passages ↗ · 李开复 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗