Nelson Mandela, photo 1 of 2
Nelson Mandela, photo 2 of 2

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Photo
Nelson Mandela 1994
By
Kingkongphoto & celebrity-photos.com
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CC BY-SA 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

Photo
Young Mandela
Licence
Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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曼德拉

Màndélā
proper noun #13,552

Meanings

  1. 1 Nelson Mandela (anti-apartheid leader)

About Nelson Mandela

1918–2013 · 政治家 politician

Leader of the fight against apartheid in South Africa who spent 27 years in prison and in 1994 became the country's first Black president. He shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F. W. de Klerk.

Also called  纳尔逊·曼德拉

Characters

Phonetic transliteration of 'Mandela'.

Examples

HSK 7-9
Màndélā wèi Nánfēi de zìyóu zuòchū le jùdà gòngxiàn.
Mandela made great contributions to the freedom of South Africa.

Tips

culture
Online his name lives on in 曼德拉效应, the 'Mandela effect': many people sharing the same false memory. It is named after people who 'remembered' him dying in prison in the 1980s, though he lived until 2013.

Stroke Order

曼 màn
德 dé
拉 lā