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居里夫人

Jū lǐ fū ren

4-character word

What 居里夫人 means

1. Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)

The characters in 居里夫人

• 居jūto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 镭是居里夫人所发现的。
  Léi shì Jūlǐ Fūren suǒ fāxiàn de.
  It was Marie Curie who discovered radium.
• 居里夫人是波兰人人，不是法国人。
  Jūlǐ Fūren shì Bōlán rénrén, bù shì Fǎguórén.
  Marie Curie was Polish, not French.

Sounds the same

Read Jū lǐ fū ren, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 居礼夫人variant of 居里夫人