陈独秀 (陳獨秀)
Chén Dú xiù
Pinyin

Definition

陈独秀 (陳獨秀)
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Chén Dú xiù
  1. Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

优秀
yōu xiù
  1. 1 outstanding
  2. 2 excellent
秀
xiù
  1. 1 handsome
  2. 2 refined
  3. 3 elegant
  4. 4 graceful
  5. 5 superior
  6. 6 show (loanword)
  7. 7 classifier: 场 cháng
  8. 8 (literary) to grow
  9. 9 to bloom
  10. 10 (of crops) to produce ears
作秀
zuò xiù
  1. 1 to show off (loanword, from English "show")
  2. 2 to grandstand
  3. 3 to perform in a stage show
俊秀
jùn xiù
  1. 1 well-favored
  2. 2 elegant
  3. 3 pretty
清秀
qīng xiù
  1. 1 delicate and pretty

Idioms (8)

一枝独秀
yī zhī dú xiù
  1. 1 lit. only one branch of the tree is thriving (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be in a league of one's own
  3. 3 outstanding
山明水秀
shān míng shuǐ xiù
  1. 1 lit. verdant hills and limpid water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. enchanting scenery
山清水秀
shān qīng shuǐ xiù
  1. 1 lit. verdant hills and limpid water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. enchanting scenery
秀外慧中
xiù wài huì zhōng
  1. 1 good-looking and intelligent (idiom)
秀才不出门，全知天下事
xiù cai bù chū mén , quán zhī tiān xià shì
  1. 1 a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)

Sample Sentences

嗯，其实五四不只是传统意义上的学生运动，更是思想政治和文化领域的革命。它在中国的地位相当于西方的“文艺复兴”在历史上的位置。比如在文化方面，由北大教授胡适、陈独秀等人主导掀起了新文化运动。
ng4 ，qíshí Wǔsì bù zhǐshì chuántǒng yìyì shàng de xuésheng yùndòng ，gèng shì sīxiǎng zhèngzhì hé wénhuà lǐngyù de gémìng 。tā zài Zhōngguó de dìwèi xiāngdāngyú xīfāng de “wényìfùxīng ”zài lìshǐ shàng de wèizhi 。bǐrú zài wénhuà fāngmiàn ，yóu Běidà jiàoshòu Hú Shì 、Chén Dúxiù děng rén zhǔdǎo xiānqǐ le xīnwénhuà yùndòng 。
Yes. Actually the May Fourth Movement was not simply a student movement in the traditional sense. It was more of a revolution of political and cultural ideology. Its position in Chinese history is equivalent to the “Renaissance” in the Western world. For example, on the cultural side of things, Peking University professors, Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu, started the New Culture Movement.
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