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马礼逊

Mǎ lǐ xùn

3-character word Traditional 馬禮遜

What 马礼逊 means

1. Robert Morrison (1782-1834), Presbyterian minister, translator, and the London Missionary Society's first missionary to China

The characters in 马礼逊

• 马mǎhorse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
• 礼lǐgift; rite; ceremony
• 逊xùnto abdicate; modest; yielding

Example sentences

• 一八零七年，第一个到中国的英国新教徒传教士罗伯特马礼逊到了广州。
  Yī bā líng qī nián, dìyī gè dào Zhōngguó de Yīngguó xīnjiàotú chuánjiàoshì Luóbótè mǎ lǐ xùn dào le Guǎngzhōu.
  In 1807, Robert Morrison, the first British Protestant missionary to China arrived in Guangzhou.