薄伽丘

Traditional form:

薄伽丘

Pinyin (reading):

Bójiāqiū

Definitions:

• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist, author of Decameron 十日談／十日谈 ( Shírì Tán)

Characters:

• 薄 - thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
• 伽 - temple; used to transliterations
• 丘 - mound, hill; surname

Traditional characters:

• 薄 - thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
• 伽 - temple; used to transliterations
• 丘 - mound, hill; surname