DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

梅德韋傑夫

简梅德韦杰夫 · 繁梅德韋傑夫

Mandarin · pinyin Méi dé wéi jié fū

Medvedyev (name)
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

梅: méi · plums; prunes; surname
德: dé · ethics, morality, virtue
韋: Look up this written character
傑: Look up this written character
夫: fū · man, male adult, husband; those
韦: wéi · tanned leather; surname; simplified form of Kangxi radical 178
杰: jié · hero; heroic, outstanding

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

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–2–2–2–1 · Mei2 de2 wei2 jie2 fu1

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.

梅德韋傑夫 · find source passages ↗ · 梅德韦杰夫 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

mui4 dak1 wai5 git6 fu1

Cantonese word readings for 梅德韋傑夫. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

a transliteration of the Russian surname Медве́дев (Medvédev)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack