严复

Traditional form:

嚴復

Pinyin (reading):

Yán Fù

Definitions:

• Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences

Characters:

• 严 - strict, rigorous, rigid; stern
• 复 - again, repeatedly; copy, duplicate; to restore, to return

Traditional characters:

• 嚴 - strict, rigorous, rigid; stern
• 復 - again, repeatedly; copy, duplicate; to restore, to return