居 里 夫 人

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

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Original source entry:

居里夫人 居里夫人 [Ju1 li3 fu1 ren5] /Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)/

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居
jī
(archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitude
jū
(literary) to reside / to live / (bound form) to occupy (a position) / (literary) to store up / (literary) to remain / to stay / (bound form) residence / dwelling / (bound form) used in names of restaurants
Jū
surname Ju
里
lǐ
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[lǐ] / li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhèn] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lín] levels
Lǐ
surname Li
夫
fū
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
fú
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
人
rén
person / people / CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi],名[míng]

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