白求恩

Traditional form:

白求恩

Pinyin (reading):

Bái Qiú'ēn

Definitions:

• Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning

Characters:

• 白 - white; clear, pure, unblemished; bright
• 求 - to seek; to request, to demand; to beseech, to beg for
• 恩 - kindness, mercy, charity

Traditional characters:

• 白 - white; clear, pure, unblemished; bright
• 求 - to seek; to request, to demand; to beseech, to beg for
• 恩 - kindness, mercy, charity