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古登堡

Mandarin · pinyin Gǔ dēng bǎo

(name) Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400–1468), inventor in Europe of the printing press
Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale

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古: gǔ · old, classic, ancient
登: dēng · rise, mount, board, climb
堡: bǎo · fort, fortress; town, village

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3–1–3 · Gu3 deng1 bao3

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a transliteration of the German surname Gutenberg

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