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欧几里得

Ōu jǐ lǐ dé

4-character word Traditional 歐幾里得

What 欧几里得 means

1. Euclid of Alexandria (c. 300 BC), Greek geometer and author of the Elements {几何原本|Jǐ hé Yuán běn}

The characters in 欧几里得

• 欧ōuohm (abbr. for 欧姆; euro (abbr. for 欧元; used in transliteration
• 几jǐhow many; how much; several; a few
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

Example sentences

• 欧几里得是第一本数学着作的作者。
  Euclid was the author of the first book on mathematics.

Sounds the same

Read Ōu jǐ lǐ dé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 欧几里德variant of 欧几里得