拉狄克

Traditional form:

拉狄克

Pinyin (reading):

Lādíkè

Definitions:

• Karl Berngardovich Radek (1885-1939), Bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, died in prison during Stalin's purges

Characters:

• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)
• 狄 - barbarians; a tribe from northern China; surname
• 克 - to subdue, to restrain, to overcome; used in transliterations

Traditional characters:

• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)
• 狄 - barbarians; a tribe from northern China; surname
• 克 - to subdue, to restrain, to overcome; used in transliterations