孤拔

Traditional form:

孤拔

Pinyin (reading):

Gūbá

Definitions:

• Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War

Characters:

• 孤 - orphaned; alone, lonely, solidary
• 拔 - to uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote

Traditional characters:

• 孤 - orphaned; alone, lonely, solidary
• 拔 - to uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote