刘光第

Traditional form:

劉光第

Pinyin (reading):

Liú Guāngdì

Definitions:

• Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 ( Wùxū Liùjūnzi) of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898

Characters:

• 刘 - to kill, to destroy; surname
• 光 - light; bright, brilliant; only, merely
• 第 - sequence, number; grade, degree; particle prefacing an ordinal

Traditional characters:

• 劉 - to kill, to destroy; surname
• 光 - light; bright, brilliant; only, merely
• 第 - sequence, number; grade, degree; particle prefacing an ordinal