莱布尼茨

萊布尼茨
Láibùnící
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German philosopher and mathematician, co-inventor of calculus

Examples

HSK 5
Láibùnící shì Déguó zhéxuéjiā hé shùxuéjiā.
Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician.
HSK 7-9
Láibùnící hé Niúdùn chàbuduō tóngshí gèzì fāmíng le wēijīfēn.
Leibniz and Newton each invented calculus at about the same time.

Tips

culture
He was fascinated by China. When a Jesuit in Beijing sent him the hexagrams of the 《易经》, he took them as proof that the Chinese had found his binary numbers, 二进制, thousands of years before him.
usage
The final 茨 is the syllable Chinese uses for a German -z or -tz, as in 茨威格 for Zweig.

Stroke Order

莱 lái
布 bù
尼 ní
茨 cí