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白求恩

Mandarin · pinyin Bái Qiú ēn

Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning

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白: bái · white; pure, unblemished; bright
求: qiú · seek; demand, request; beseech
恩: ēn · kindness, mercy, charity

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2–2–1 · Bai2 Qiu2 en1

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baak6 kau4 jan1

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a transliteration of the English surname Bethune, originally referring to the Canadian physician Norman Bethune (1890–1939)

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