培里克利斯
Traditional form:
培里克利斯
Pinyin (reading):
Péilǐkèlìsī
Definitions:
- Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
- also written 伯里克利 ( Bólǐkèlì)
Characters:
- 培 - to cultivate, to farm; to shore up
- 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
- 克 - to subdue, to restrain, to overcome; used in transliterations
- 利 - gains, advantage, profit, merit
- 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
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