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朴正熙

Mandarin · pinyin Piáo Zhèng xī

Park Chung-Hee (1917-1979), South Korean military man and dictator, president 1963-1979, influential in developing Korean industry, murdered by his bodyguard

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朴: pǔ · simple, unadorned; sincere; surname; a tree
正: zhèng · right, proper, correct
熙: xī · bright, splendid, glorious

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2–4–1 · Piao2 Zheng4 xi1

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