shí · yī
first of October
PRC National day
same as 國慶|国庆[gúo qìng]
rì · diàn
cable sent on given date
n日電|n日电 means news item of nth of the month
Ān bèi · Jìn sān
ABE Shinzō (1954-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007
Xiǎo tián · Jiàn
OBATA Takeshi, manga artist, illustrator of cult series Death Note 死亡筆記|死亡笔记
liù · sì
refers to Tian'anmen incident of 4th June 1989
Bǐ ěr · Gài cí
Bill Gates (1955-), founder and chairman of Microsoft
Mài kè ěr · Jié kè xùn
Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American musician and entertainer
Tāng mǔ · Kè lǔ sī
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Má shēng · Tài láng
ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister from 2008
Cūn shàng · Chūn shù
MURAKAMI Haruki (1949-), Japanese novelist and translator
Dá · Fēn qí
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian renaissance painter
Jiǎn · Ài
Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë 夏洛特·勃良特
Hā lì · Bō tè
Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳
Mǎ lì lián · Mèng lòu
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), US actress
Nī kě · Jī dé màn
Nicole Kidman (1967-), film actress
Běn · Lā dēng
Osama bin Laden (1957-), leader of Al Qaeda
Qiáo zhì · Huá shèng dùn
George Washington (1732-1799), first US president
Ān ní · Hǎi sè wēi
Anne Hathaway (1982-), American actress
Xiǎo chí · Bǎi hé zi
KOIKE Yuriko (1952-), Japanese LDP politician, minister of defense during 2008
Mǎ kè · Tǔ wēn
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克貝利·芬歷險記|哈克贝利·芬历险记
Mǎ dīng · Lù dé
Martin Luther (1483-1546), reformation protestant minister
Yà dāng · Sī mì
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish ethical philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Wealth of Nations 國富論|国富论
Tāng mǔ · Kè lán xī
Tom Clancy (1947-), US author
Sēn · Xǐ lǎng
MORI Yoshirō (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes
Mài kè ěr · Qiáo dān
Michael Jordan (1963-) US basketball player
Shā lā · Bù lái màn
Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
Wò lún · Bā fēi tè
Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway
Liè fū · Tuō ěr sī tài
Tolstoy (name)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
Jié kè · Lún dūn
Jack London (1876-1916), American writer
Xī lā lǐ · Kè lín dùn
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician, First lady during Bill Clinton's presidency 1993-2001, Senator for New York since 2001, US Secretary of state from 2009
Mǎ dīng · Lù dé · Jīn
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist
Hǎi lún · Kǎi lē
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)
Dé yì zhì · Lián bāng · Gòng hé guó
Federal Republic of Germany
former West Germany 1945-1990, now simply Germany
Xiǎo quán · Chún yī láng
KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
Kē nán · Dào ěr
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
Bù lán nī · Sī pí ěr sī
Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer
Mó gēn · Fú lǐ màn
Morgan Freeman, American actor
Kūn tīng · Tǎ lún dì nuò
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
Hā lì · Bèi ruì
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
Běi Dà xī yáng · gōng yuē · zǔ zhī
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
Xī sī · Lái jié
Heath Ledger, Australian actor (1979-2008)
Lǜ bà · huā jì hù háng
Green Dam Youth Escort, internet content-control software (abbreviated to 綠壩|绿坝[Lǜ bà])
Tāng mǔ · Suǒ yà lì xiǎn jì
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
Ā nuò · Shī wǎ xīn gé
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California since 2003
also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格
Kǎ ěr · Mǎ kè sī
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Tài gé · Wǔ zī
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer
Bèi · Bù tuō
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
Ā nuò dé · Shī wǎ xīn gé
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California since 2003
Běn dǔ · shí liù shì
Benedict XVI (Pope)
Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), Pope from 2005
Wēi lián · Shā shì bǐ yà
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
Qiáo zhì · Suǒ luó sī
George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
Rú lè · Fán ěr nà
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories, author of Around the World in Eighty Days 八十天环绕地球
Cháo yǒng · Zhèn yī láng
TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger
Luó ěr sī · Luó yī sī
Rolls-Royce (UK company)
also written 勞斯萊斯|劳斯莱斯[Láo sī Lái sī]
Běn jié míng · Fù lán kè lín
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat
Yī wá · Mén dé sī
Eva Mendes, American actress
Qiáo zhì · Ào wēi ěr
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984
Ā bù lái tí · Ā bù dū rè xī tí
Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Kè lǐ sī tīng · Bèi ěr
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Wéi kè duō · Yǔ guǒ
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer
Āi dé jiā · Sī nuò
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
Dé yì zhì · mín zhǔ · gòng hé guó
German democratic republic (former East Germany), 1945-1990
Bā dēng · Fú téng bǎo zhōu
Baden-Württemberg, southwest German state, capital Stuttgart 斯圖加特|斯图加特[Sī tú jiā tè]
Wēi lián · Fú kè nà
William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and poet
Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
Ài mǎ · Wò tè sēn
Emma Watson (1990-), British actress
Jié kuí lín · Kěn ní dí
Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy (1929-1994)
Ná pò lún · Bō ná bā
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Mǎ kè sī · pǔ lǎng kè
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist who first postulated quantization of energy
Fú lán xī sī · Péi gēn
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Yuē hàn · Lā bèi
John Rabe (1882-1950), German that helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
Bù lā dé · Bǐ tè
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (1963-), US actor and film producer
Zhān mǔ sī · Qiáo yī sī
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist writer, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Sī wén · Hè dìng
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰
Mài kè ěr · Kè lái dùn
Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park
Ài sà kè · Niú dùn
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
Běi lái yīn · Wēi sī tè fǎ lún zhōu
Nordrhein-Westfalen, state of Germany
Bó nà sī · Lǐ
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
Āi dé jiā · Ài lún · Pō
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American poet and novelist
Āi ěr wéi sī · Pǔ léi sī lì
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star
Bù lái tè nī · Mò fēi
Brittany Murphy (1977-2009), American actress
Dào gé lā sī · Mài kè ā sè
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Yuán · Lài cháo
MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府|镰仓幕府[Lián cāng mù fǔ]
Jié xī kǎ · Ài ěr bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
É lè bèi gé · Dào ěr jí
Elbegdorj Tsakhia or Tsakhia-giin Elbegdorj (1963-), Mongolian US educated Democratic Party politician, president of Mongolia from 2009
Jié xī · Ōu wén sī
Jesse Owens (1913-1980), American athlete
Yuē hàn · Huò jīn sī
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain
Pǔ mì péng · Ā dù dé
Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-), King of Thailand (reigned 1945-)
Shā lā · Pèi lín
Sarah Palin (1964-), US Republican politician, State governor of Alaska from 2006
Zú lì · Yì mǎn
ASHIKAGA Yoshimitsu (1358-1408), third Ashikaga shōgun, reigned 1368-1394
Kāng duō lì zhā · Lài sī
Rice (name)
Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State from 2005
Bào bó · Mǎ lì
Bob Marley (1945-1981), Jamaican Reggae 雷鬼 musician and activist
Máo Zé dōng · xiān wéi rén zhī de gù shi
Mao Zedong, the unknown story by Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 and Jon Halliday
Sī dì fēn · Hā pò
Stephen Harper (1959-), Canadian politician, prime minister from 2006
Nuò mǔ · Qiáo mǔ sī jī
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
Yuē sè fū · Sī dà lín
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Mó hēng zuǒ · dá luó
Moenjo-daro, capital of Indus valley civilization c. 2000 BC, Sind province, Pakistan, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Nà sā ní ěr · Huò sāng
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
Yuē hàn · È pǔ dài kè
John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner
Hā kè bèi lì · Fēn lì xiǎn jì
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
Dà chǎng · Dōng
OHBA Tsugumi (pen-name), author of cult series Death Note 死亡筆記|死亡笔记
Dí gē · Jiā xī yà dǎo
Diego Garcia tropical island and US military base in the Indian Ocean, main island of Chago archipelago 查戈斯群島|查戈斯群岛
Sū shān · Bō yī ěr
Susan Boyle (1961-), competitor in UK reality TV competition
Léi · Luó mǎ nuò
Ray Romano (1957-), US actor and comedian
Yóu lì yà · Jì mò shēn kē
Yulia Tymoshenko (1960-), Ukrainian politician
Shǐ dì fēn · Hā pò
see 斯蒂芬・哈珀[Sī dì fēn · Hā pò]
Qí nèi dīng · Qí dá nèi
Zinedine Zidane (Zizou), a past French soccer player
Āi dé · Mǐ lì bān dé
Ed Milliband, UK labor politician, opposition leader from 2010
Yà xī ěr · Ā lā fǎ tè
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat
Bèi nà qí ěr · Bù tuō
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
Jié xī kǎ · Ài bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
Xī měng · Shū sī tè
Simon and Schuster, US publisher
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Kǎ sī dì lì yà · lái áng
Castilla-Leon, north Spanish province
Lù yì sī · Yī nà xī ào · Lú lā · Dá xí ěr wǎ
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth President of Brazil
Lula
Bīn tián · Jìng yī
HAMADA Yasukazu (1955-), Japanese defense minister from 2008
Fú lǐ dé lǐ xī · Xí lè
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
Dà wèi · Ài dēng bǎo
David Attenborough (1926-), British naturalist and broadcaster, author of Life on Earth 地球上的生物[dì qíu shàng de shēng wù]
Bào bó · Wǔ dé wò dé
Bob Woodward (Washington Post journalist)
Zú lì · Yì zhèng
ASHIKAGA Yoshimasa (1435-1490), eighth Ashikaga shōgun, reigned 1449-1473
Zhēn · Ào sī tīng
Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist
also written 简・奧斯汀|简・奥斯汀[Jiǎn · Ào sī tīng]
Ēn lǐ kē · Fèi mǐ
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
gǔ sī tǎ fū · duō léi
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
Kūn tīng · Tǎ lún tí nuò
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
Hè ěr mù tè · Kē ěr
Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
Xī měng · Pèi léi sī
Shimon Peres, ninth president of Israel
Nǎ mù bā ěr · Ēn hè bā yà ěr
Nambaryn Enkhbayar (1958-), Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politician, President of Mongolia 2005-2009
Jiā lì lüè · Jiā lì léi
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist
Tí mǔ · Luó bīn sī
Tim Robbins, American actor
Yóu lǐ sī · Yī wén sī
Joris Ivens (1898-1989), Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist
Fú luò lún dì nuò · Pèi léi sī
Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club
Táng nà dé · Chuān pǔ
Donald Trump (1946-), American business magnate
Tài tè sī · Ān dé luò ní kè sī
Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Hé lì · Bèi ruì
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
Tuō mǎ sī · Ā kuí nà
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
Luó bó tè · Lù yì sī · Sī dì wén sēn
Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist), author of Treasure Island 金銀島|金银岛
Luó bó tè · Bó ēn sī
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
Dà wèi · Mǐ lì bān dé
David Miliband (1965-), UK politician
Ài gé ní sī · Shǐ mò tè lái
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side
Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín
James Gosling (1955-), Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Java programming language
Kù ěr tè · Wǎ ěr dé hǎi mǔ
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, Secretary-General of UN 1972-1981, President of Austria 1986-1992
Sī tǎn fú · Lái fó shì
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore
Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
Hēng lì · Hā dé xùn
Henry Hudson (?-1611?), English explorer and navigator
Āi kè tuō · Bó liáo zī
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique
Yà lì shān dà · Dù bù qiē kè
Alexander Dubček (1921-1992), leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969)
Ān · Hǎi sè wēi
see 安妮・海瑟薇[Ān ní · Hǎi sè wēi]
Ā dào sī · Hè xū lí
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave new world 美麗新世界|美丽新世界
Máo Zé dōng · bù wéi rén zhī de gù shi
Mao Zedong, the unknown story by Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 and Jon Halliday
Fǎ lán xī sī · Péi gēn
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Táng · Jí hé dé
Don Quixote (hero of novel by Cervantes)
Zhān mǔ sī · Gē sī lín
see 詹姆斯・高斯林[Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín]
Qiú lì sī · Kǎi sǎ
Julius Caesar, 1599 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Yuē hàn · Běn rén
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
Sī wén · Hǎi dìng
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰
also written 斯文·赫定
Xī huò tè · Ā lín
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
Ān ní · Xià fēi wéi
see 安妮・海瑟薇[Ān ní · Hǎi sè wēi]
Zhān mǔ sī · Gē shì lín
see 詹姆斯・高斯林[Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín]
Kǎi qiàn · Fú lǐ màn
Cathy Freeman, Australian sprinter
Yé lái nuó · Yáng kē wéi qí
Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player
Dá kē tǎ · Fēn nī
Dakota Fanning, American actress
Xià Luò tè · Bó liáng tè
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱
Sān pǔ · Méi yuán
MIURA Baien (1723-1789), Japanese neo-Confucian philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Origin of value 價原|价原
Háo yī dù · Bǐ háo ěr
Hajdú-Bihar province of east Hungary on the border with Romania
Lín · Dài wéi sī
Lynn E. Davis, US academic and arms control expert, Under-secretary at US State Department 1993-1997
Dí ào duō · Ā duō nuò
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer
liù · èr wǔ zhàn zhēng
the Korean war (started June 25 1950)
Ài dé huá · Dá lā dì
Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician
Hé dá · Qīng fū
Wadati Kiyoō (1902-1995), pioneer Japanese seismologist
Hè màn · Mài ěr wéi ěr
Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bái jīng]
Lù yì · Pí āi ěr · Ā ěr dōu sāi
Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher
Luó bó tè · Fú luò sī tè
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Háo yī dù · Bì háo ěr zhōu
Hajdú-Bihar county in east Hungary on the border with Romania, capital Debrecen 德布勒森
Tāng mǔ · Luó bīn sī
Tom Robbins, American novelist
Xī huò tè · Ā lín shān mài
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
guài rén Ào ěr · Yáng kē wéi qí
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959-), US singer and writer of parody songs
Bù liè diān · Bǎo wèi zhàn
Battle of Britain (Jul-Sep 1940)
Gá lā · Duō jié · Rén bō qiè
Garab Dorje Rinpoche, succession of Buthanese religious leaders
Fǎ lán xī sī · Fěi dí nán
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I
Mù hǎn mò dé · Ōu mǎ
Mullah Mohammad Omar (1959-), Taliban leader, Afghan head of state 1996-2001
Tāng chuān · Xiù shù
YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate