托勒密

Tuōlèmì

noun #29,846

Meanings

1 Ptolemy (name)
2 Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90–168 AD), Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer
3 the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt

Characters

to entrust; phonetic

to restrain; phonetic

secret; close; phonetic

Phonetic transliteration of 'Ptolemy'.

Examples

HSK 7-9

托勒密认为地球是宇宙的中心。

Tuōlèmì rènwéi dìqiú shì yǔzhòu de zhōngxīn.

Ptolemy believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.

HSK 7-9

托勒密体系统治了西方天文学一千多年。

Tuōlèmì tǐxì tǒngzhì le xīfāng tiānwénxué yìqiān duō nián.

The Ptolemaic system dominated Western astronomy for over a thousand years.

Tips

history

Ptolemy's geocentric model was enshrined in his work 天文学大成 (Almagest) and remained the dominant astronomical view until Copernicus in the 16th century.

Stroke Order

托 tuō

勒 lè

密 mì