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Nguyen Aïn Nuä'C (Ho-Chi-Minh), délégué indochinois, Congrès communiste de Marseille, 1921, Meurisse, BNF Gallica
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Jawaharlal Nehru with Ho Chi Minh
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胡志明

Hú Zhìmíng
proper noun #51,963

Meanings

  1. 1 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese communist leader and founding father of modern Vietnam

About Ho Chi Minh

1890–1969 · 革命家 revolutionary

Vietnamese revolutionary who founded the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1930, declared Vietnam's independence in 1945 and led North Vietnam until his death. Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after him.

Also called  阮爱国、 阮生恭、 胡伯伯

Examples

HSK 6
越南的经济中心胡志明市以他的名字命名。
Yuènán de jīngjì zhōngxīn Hú Zhìmíng Shì yǐ tā de míngzi mìngmíng.
Vietnam's economic hub Ho Chi Minh City is named after him.
HSK 7-9
胡志明是越南民主共和国的创始人。
Hú Zhìmíng shì Yuènán Mínzhǔ Gònghéguó de chuàngshǐrén.
Ho Chi Minh was the founder of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Tips

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His name is not a transliteration: Hồ Chí Minh is the Vietnamese reading of the characters 胡志明, roughly 'Hu of the clear will'. He wrote Chinese well enough to compose over a hundred poems in Guangxi prisons in 1942–43, published as 《狱中日记》, 'Prison Diary'.

Stroke Order

胡 hú
志 zhì
明 míng