李行道

Lǐ Xíngdào

proper noun

Meanings

1 Li Xingdao, Yuan-dynasty zaju playwright, author of The Chalk Circle

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Examples

HSK 6

李行道的《灰阑记》启发了布莱希特，他后来写了《高加索灰阑记》。

Lǐ Xíngdào de 《 Huīlánjì 》 qǐfā le Bùláixītè, tā hòulái xiě le 《 Gāojiāsuǒ huīlánjì 》.

Li Xingdao's The Chalk Circle inspired Brecht, who later wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

HSK 7-9

李行道是元代的杂剧作家。

Lǐ Xíngdào shì Yuándài de zájù zuòjiā.

Li Xingdao was a zaju playwright of the Yuan dynasty.

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history

Also written 李行甫, he came from 绛州 in today's Shanxi, and little else is known of him. In his one surviving play, 《灰阑记》, the judge 包拯 finds a child's true mother with a circle of lime. In his name 行 is read xíng, not háng.

Stroke Order

李 lǐ

行 xíng

道 dào