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哥白尼

Gē bái ní

3-character word

What 哥白尼 means

1. Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath

The characters in 哥白尼

• 哥gēelder brother
• 白báiwhite; snowy; pure
• 尼níBuddhist nun; (often used in phonetic spellings)

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