托马斯·阿奎纳

Traditional form:

托馬斯·阿奎納

Pinyin (reading):

Tuōmǎsī· Akuínà

Definitions:

• Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition

Characters:

• 托 - to raise, to support; to entrust, to rely on
• 马 - horse; surname
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 阿 - an initial particle, a prefix used for names; used in transliterations
• 奎 - a man's stride; a constellation
• 纳 - to adopt, to accept; to receive, to take

Traditional characters:

• 托 - to raise, to support; to entrust, to rely on
• 馬 - horse; surname
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 阿 - an initial particle, a prefix used for names; used in transliterations
• 奎 - a man's stride; a constellation
• 納 - to adopt, to accept; to receive, to take