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Mandarin · pinyin Fèi màn

Feinman or Feynman (name)
Richard Feynman (1918-1988), US physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate together with TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō and Julian Schwinger

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曼: màn · long, extended, vast; beautiful
费: fèi · expenses, expenditures, fee

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4–4 · Fei4 man4

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a transliteration of the English surname Feynman

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