波洛涅斯 bō luò niè sī

Polonius, a man in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 86466th word

Definitions

  1. 1. Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet
  2. 2. Polonius (name)

Characters

Character Meaning
波 bō HSK 6
wave; ripple; surge
洛 luò
surname Luo; used in transliteration
涅 niè
abbr. for 涅槃niè pán; to blacken; variant of 涅niè
斯 sī HSK 6
(phonetic); this; Slovakia