托勒密
Tuō lè mì
Pinyin

Definition

托勒密
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Tuō lè mì
  1. Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC
  2. Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成
  3. see also 托勒玫[Tuō lè méi]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

gào mì zhě
  1. 1 tell-tale
  2. 2 informer (esp. to police)
  3. 3 whistleblower
  4. 4 grass
mì mǎ
  1. 1 secret code
  2. 2 ciphertext
  3. 3 password
  4. 4 PIN
tuō
  1. 1 prop
  2. 2 support (for weight)
  3. 3 rest (e.g. arm rest)
  4. 4 thanks to
  5. 5 to hold in one's hand
  6. 6 to support in one's palm
  7. 7 to give
  8. 8 to base
  9. 9 to commit
  10. 10 to set
  11. 11 torr (unit of pressure)
bài tuō
  1. 1 to request sb to do sth
  2. 2 please!
mó tuō chē
  1. 1 motorbike
  2. 2 motorcycle (loanword)
  3. 3 classifier: 辆 liàng
  4. 4 classifier: 部 bù

Idioms (7)

密不可分
mì bù kě fēn
  1. 1 inextricably linked (idiom)
  2. 2 inseparable
悬崖勒马
xuán yá lè mǎ
  1. 1 lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to act in the nick of time
托足无门
tuō zú wú mén
  1. 1 to be unable to find a place to stay (idiom)
敲诈勒索
qiāo zhà lè suǒ
  1. 1 extortion and blackmail (idiom)
烘云托月
hōng yún tuō yuè
  1. 1 lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil
  2. 2 a contrasting character to a main hero