亚历山大·杜布切克

Traditional form:

亞歷山大·杜布切克

Pinyin (reading):

Yàlìshāndà· Dùbùqiēkè

Definitions:

• Alexander Dubček (1921-1992), leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969)

Characters:

• 亚 - Asia; second
• 历 - history; calendar
• 山 - mountain, hill, peak
• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 杜 - to prevent, to restrict, to stop; surname
• 布 - cotton, linen, textiles; to announce, to declare; to spread
• 切 - to cut, to mince, to slice, to carve; close to; eager
• 克 - to subdue, to restrain, to overcome; used in transliterations

Traditional characters:

• 亞 - Asia; second
• 歷 - history; calendar
• 山 - mountain, hill, peak
• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 杜 - to prevent, to restrict, to stop; surname
• 布 - cotton, linen, textiles; to announce, to declare; to spread
• 切 - to cut, to mince, to slice, to carve; close to; eager
• 克 - to subdue, to restrain, to overcome; used in transliterations