阿普尔顿

Traditional form:

阿普爾頓

Pinyin (reading):

Apǔ'ěrdùn

Definitions:

• Appleton (name)
• Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere

Characters:

• 阿 - an initial particle, a prefix used for names; used in transliterations
• 普 - widespread, universal, general
• 尔 - you; that, those; final particle
• 顿 - to pause; to bow; to arrange

Traditional characters:

• 阿 - an initial particle, a prefix used for names; used in transliterations
• 普 - widespread, universal, general
• 爾 - you; that, those; final particle
• 頓 - to pause; to bow; to arrange