庞德 (Páng Dé) · Pang De (Three Kingdoms general)

Meanings

1 Pang De (Three Kingdoms general)
2 Pound (name, e.g. Ezra Pound)

About Pang De

died 219 · 军事家 military leader

General of 曹操 in the Three Kingdoms period. Captured by 关羽 at Fancheng in 219, he refused to surrender and was executed. In 三国演义 he takes his own coffin along into battle.

Also called 令明

Characters

庞

Páng

huge; enormous; surname Pang

德

dé

virtue; morality

Examples

HSK 7-9

庞德是三国时期的一位猛将。

Páng Dé shì Sānguó shíqī de yí wèi měngjiàng.

Pang De was a fierce general during the Three Kingdoms period.

HSK 7-9

庞德宁死不降。

Páng Dé nìngsǐ-bùxiáng.

Pang De would rather die than surrender.

Tips

culture

The same two characters spell the American poet Ezra Pound, 埃兹拉·庞德, whose 1915 book Cathay put poems of 李白 into English from a scholar's notes, though Pound then read no Chinese. James Bond is a different name: 邦德.