DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

陳天華

简陈天华 · 繁陳天華

Mandarin · pinyin Chén Tiān huà

Chen Tianhua (1875-1905), anti-Qing revolutionary from Hunan, drowned himself in Japan in 1905

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

陳: Look up this written character
天: tiān · sky, heaven; god, celestial
華: Look up this written character
陈: chén · exhibit, display; plead; a surname
华: huá · flowery; illustrious; Chinese

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

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–1–4 · Chen2 Tian1 hua4

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.

陳天華 · find source passages ↗ · 陈天华 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗