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居里夫人

Mandarin · pinyin Jū lǐ fū ren

Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)

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居: jū · live, dwell, reside, sit
里: lǐ · unit of distance; village; lane; Kangxi radical 166
夫: fū · man, male adult, husband; those
人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else

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1–3–1–5 · Ju1 li3 fu1 ren5

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