古登堡

Gǔ dēng bǎo

Dictionary entry

(name) Gutenberg

What does 古登堡 mean?

古登堡 (Gǔ dēng bǎo) has the following dictionary meaning.

1(name) Gutenberg

2Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400–1468), inventor in Europe of the printing press

3Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale

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古Gǔsurname Gu 登dēngto scale (a height) · to ascend 堡bǎo(bound form) fortress; stronghold · (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names)

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