DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

鄧小平

简邓小平 · 繁鄧小平

Mandarin · pinyin Dèng Xiǎo píng

Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

鄧: Look up this written character
小: xiǎo · small, tiny, insignificant
平: píng · flat, level, even; peaceful
邓: dèng · surname

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

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–3–2 · Deng4 Xiao3 ping2

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.

鄧小平 · find source passages ↗ · 邓小平 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗