塞万提斯

Traditional form:

塞萬提斯

Pinyin (reading):

Sàiwàntísī

Definitions:

• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德／堂吉诃德 ( Tángjíhēdé)

Characters:

• 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
• 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 提 - to hold in the hand; to lift, to raise
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations

Traditional characters:

• 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
• 萬 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 提 - to hold in the hand; to lift, to raise
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations