蔡伦 (蔡倫)
Cài Lún
Pinyin

Definition

蔡伦 (蔡倫)
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Cài Lún
  1. Cai Lun (-121), the inventor of the papermaking process

Character Decomposition

Related Words (16)

蔡英文
Cài Yīng wén
  1. 1 Tsai Ing-wen (1956-), Taiwanese DPP politician, president of the Republic of China from 2016
蔡
Cài
  1. 1 surname Cai
蔡依林
Cài Yī lín
  1. 1 Jolin Tsai (1980-), Taiwanese singer
上蔡
Shàng cài
  1. 1 Shangcai county in Zhumadian 駐馬店|驻马店[Zhù mǎ diàn], Henan
上蔡县
Shàng cài xiàn
  1. 1 Shangcai county in Zhumadian 駐馬店|驻马店[Zhù mǎ diàn], Henan

Sample Sentences

据说金字塔里还发现了一种草纸，上面有古埃及文字。哎，我一直以为纸是我们东汉的蔡伦发明的，没想到古埃及早就发明了纸。比我们早了近3000年！
jùshuō jīnzìtǎ lǐ hái fāxiàn le yīzhǒng cǎozhǐ ，shàngmian yǒu gǔ Āijí wénzì 。ai ，wǒ yīzhí yǐwéi zhǐ shì wǒmen dōnghàn de Cài lún fāmíng de ，méixiǎngdào gǔ Āijí zǎo jiù fāmíng le zhǐ 。bǐ wǒmen zǎo le jìn sānqiān nián ！
They say a kind of grass paper was discovered in the pyramids. It has Egyptian writing on it. Ah, I always thought paper was discovered by Cai Lun during China's Eastern Han dynasty. I had no idea that ancient Egypt had discovered paper so early. They had it 3000 years before us!
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