麦尔维尔

Traditional form:

麥爾維爾

Pinyin (reading):

Mài'ěrwéi'ěr

Definitions:

• Melville (name)
• Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨／白鲸 ( Báijing)

Characters:

• 麦 - wheat, barley, oats
• 尔 - you; that, those; final particle
• 维 - to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
• 尔 - you; that, those; final particle

Traditional characters:

• 麥 - wheat, barley, oats
• 爾 - you; that, those; final particle
• 維 - to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
• 爾 - you; that, those; final particle