布拉格

Mandarin · pinyin Bù lā gé

Meanings

  1. Prague, capital of Czech Republic
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布
bù · cotton cloth, textiles, linen
拉
lā · pull, drag; seize, hold; lengthen
格
gé · pattern, standard, form; style
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4–1–2 · Bu4 la1 ge2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

bou3 laai1 gaak3

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name

  1. Prague (a city, the capital city of the Czech Republic)
  2. a transliteration of the English surname Bragg, notably borne by William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg, British pioneers in X-ray crystallography

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