辜鸿铭

Traditional form:

辜鴻銘

Pinyin (reading):

Gū Hóngmíng

Definitions:

• Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views

Characters:

• 辜 - crime, offense, sin
• 鸿 - a species of wild swan; vast
• 铭 - to engrave, to inscribe

Traditional characters:

• 辜 - crime, offense, sin
• 鴻 - a species of wild swan; vast
• 銘 - to engrave, to inscribe