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布哈林

Mandarin · pinyin Bù hā lín

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937

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布: bù · cotton cloth, textiles, linen
哈: hā · sound of laughter
林: lín · forest, grove; surname

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4–1–2 · Bu4 ha1 lin2

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a transliteration of the Russian surname Буха́рин (Buxárin), Bukharin

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