傅里葉

简 傅里叶 · 繁 傅里葉
Mandarin · pinyin Fù lǐ yè

Meanings

  1. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (French mathematician, 1768-1830)
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傅
fù · tutor, teacher; assist; surname
里
lǐ · unit of distance; village; lane; Kangxi radical 166
葉
yè · leaf, petal; page of book; period
叶
yè · to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf
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4–3–4 · Fu4 li3 ye4

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name

  1. a transliteration of the French surname Fourier

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