笛卡尔

笛卡爾

Díkǎ'ěr

proper noun

Meanings

1 René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher and mathematician

笛卡儿 Díkǎ'ér René Descartes · thinker, 1596–1650

Characters

flute; here for the sound de

card; here for the sound car

you; here for the sound tes

Examples

HSK 2

笛卡尔说过：“我思故我在。”

Díkǎ'ěr shuō guo: " Wǒ sī gù wǒ zài. "

Descartes said: 'I think, therefore I am.'

HSK 5

笛卡尔是法国哲学家。

Díkǎ'ěr shì Fǎguó zhéxuéjiā.

Descartes was a French philosopher.

Tips

culture

Chinese students meet him in maths class: the x-y plane is the 笛卡尔坐标系 'Cartesian coordinate system'.

culture

A popular Chinese internet story says he sent the equation of a heart-shaped curve, 心形线, as a secret love letter to a Swedish princess named Christina. It is invented: Christina was already queen, and he went to Stockholm in 1649 to teach her philosophy and died there the next winter.

Stroke Order

笛 dí

卡 kǎ

尔 ěr