帕拉塞尔苏斯

Traditional form:

帕拉塞爾蘇斯

Pinyin (reading):

Pàlāsài'ěrsūsī

Definitions:

• Paracelsus (1493–1541), Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher, pioneer of toxicology and medical chemistry

Characters:

• 帕 - scarf, turban, veil, wrap
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)
• 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
• 尔 - you; that, those; final particle
• 苏 - to awaken, to revive, to resurrect; used in transliterations
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations

Traditional characters:

• 帕 - scarf, turban, veil, wrap
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)
• 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
• 爾 - you; that, those; final particle
• 蘇 - to awaken, to revive, to resurrect; used in transliterations
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations