狄仁杰
Traditional form:
狄仁傑
Pinyin (reading):
Dí Rénjié
Definitions:
- Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends
- master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 ( Dígōng'àn) translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮／高罗佩 ( Gāo Luópèi)
Characters:
- 狄 - barbarians; a tribe from northern China; surname
- 仁 - benevolent, humane, kind
- 杰 - hero; heroic, outstanding
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