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Run Run Shaw 1955
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Photo credit

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Run Run Shaw youth
Licence
Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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邵逸夫

Shào Yìfū
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media magnate and philanthropist

About Run Run Shaw

1907–2014 · 企业家 entrepreneur

Hong Kong film and television magnate who built the Shaw Brothers studio and helped found TVB. His donations paid for a 逸夫楼 on campuses all over China, and he founded the Shaw Prize for science.

Also called  邵仁楞

Examples

HSK 5
全国很多大学都有邵逸夫捐建的逸夫楼。
Quánguó hěnduō dàxué dōu yǒu Shào Yìfū juān jiàn de Yì fū lóu.
Many universities across China have a Yifu Building donated by Run Run Shaw.
HSK 5
邵逸夫奖被称为"东方诺贝尔奖"。
Shào Yìfū jiǎng bèi chēngwéi " Dōngfāng Nuòbèi'ěrjiǎng ".
The Shaw Prize is called the Nobel of the East.
HSK 6
邵逸夫是TVB的创办人之一。
Shào Yìfū shì TVB de chuàngbàn rén zhīyī.
Run Run Shaw was one of the founders of TVB.

Tips

history
He took the name 逸夫 because he thought most Chinese would not know how to read the 楞 in his birth name. 'Run Run' is that old name, 仁楞, in Ningbo dialect, and Hong Kong called him 六叔, 'Uncle Six', the sixth of seven children.

Stroke Order

邵 shào
逸 yì
夫 fū