| 斯文·海定 |
Sī wén · Hǎi dìng |
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 楼兰 / also written 斯文·赫定 |
| 斯 |
Sī |
Slovakia / Slovak / abbr. for 斯洛伐克 |
| 斯 |
sī |
(phonetic) / this |
| 斯文 |
sī wén |
refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle |
| 文 |
Wén |
surname Wen |
| 文 |
wén |
language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 |
| 海 |
Hǎi |
surname Hai |
| 海 |
hǎi |
ocean / sea / CL:个,片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous |
| 定 |
dìng |
to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely |