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巴甫洛夫

Mandarin · pinyin Bā fǔ luò fū

Pavlov (name)
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist

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巴: bā · greatly desire, anxiously hope
甫: fǔ · begin; man, father; great; a distance of ten li
洛: luò · river in Shanxi province; city
夫: fū · man, male adult, husband; those

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1–3–4–1 · Ba1 fu3 luo4 fu1

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baa1 pou2 lok6 fu1

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(Mainland China) a transliteration of the Russian surname Павлов (Pavlov), Pavlov

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