福尔摩斯 (Fú'ěrmósī) · Holmes (as in Sherlock Holmes)

Meanings

1 Holmes (as in Sherlock Holmes)

About Sherlock Holmes

文学人物 fictional character

Detective of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, who lives at 221B Baker Street with Dr 华生 (Watson) and solves cases by observation and deduction. In Chinese his name also stands for anyone good at working things out.

Also called 夏洛克·福尔摩斯、夏洛克

Characters

you (literary); phonetic

this (literary); phonetic

Phonetic transliteration of 'Holmes'

Examples

HSK 3

他像福尔摩斯一样聪明

Tā xiàng Fú'ěrmósī yíyàng cōngming

He is as clever as Holmes.

HSK 7-9

福尔摩斯是一个虚构的侦探。

Fú'ěrmósī shì yí ge xūgòu de zhēntàn.

Holmes is a fictional detective.

Tips

usage

福尔摩斯 follows Fuzhou dialect, not Mandarin: there 福 is read hók, close to the 'Ho-' of Holmes, and the translator 林纾 rendered the name by Fuzhou sounds. Other people named Holmes get the standard 霍姆斯.