林则徐 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 林則徐 línzéxú ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄗㄜˊ ㄒㄩˊ Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842 Character by character 林(lín)surname Lin 则(zé)then 徐(xú)surname Xu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0