米格尔·德·塞万提斯·萨维德拉

Traditional form:

米格爾·德·塞萬提斯·薩維德拉

Pinyin (reading):

Mǐgé'ěr·dé· Sāiwàntísī· Sàwéidélā

Definitions:

• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德／堂吉诃德 ( Tángjíhēdé)

Characters:

• 米 - rice, millet, grain
• 格 - form, pattern, standard
• 尔 - you; that, those; final particle
• 德 - ethics, morality; compassion, kindness
• 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
• 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 提 - to hold in the hand; to lift, to raise
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 萨 - Buddhist diety; used in transliterations
• 维 - to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
• 德 - ethics, morality; compassion, kindness
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)

Traditional characters:

• 米 - rice, millet, grain
• 格 - form, pattern, standard
• 爾 - you; that, those; final particle
• 德 - ethics, morality; compassion, kindness
• 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
• 萬 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 提 - to hold in the hand; to lift, to raise
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 薩 - Buddhist diety; used in transliterations
• 維 - to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
• 德 - ethics, morality; compassion, kindness
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)