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額爾金 (ngaak6 ji5 gam1) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

額爾金 (ngaak6 ji5 gam1, É ěr jīn) — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860; Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 額非爾士峰 (ngaak6 fei1 ji5 si6 fung1) — Mount Everest
• 額外附加費 (ngaak6 ngoi6 fu6 gaa1 fai3) — additional charges [written and colloquial]
• 額 (ngaak6) — forehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; top part of something; specifie…
• 額吉 (ngaak6 gat1) — mother (Mongolian)
• 額外 (ngaak6 ngoi6) — extra; added; additional
• 額外性 (ngaak6 ngoi6 sing3) — additionality (economics)

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