托勒密

Traditional form:

托勒密

Pinyin (reading):

Tuōlèmì

Definitions:

• Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC
• 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
• see also 托勒玫 ( Tuōlèméi)

Characters:

• 托 - to raise, to support; to entrust, to rely on
• 勒 - to strangle; to tighten
• 密 - secret, confidential; intimate, close; dense, thick

Traditional characters:

• 托 - to raise, to support; to entrust, to rely on
• 勒 - to strangle; to tighten
• 密 - secret, confidential; intimate, close; dense, thick