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托勒密 (tok3 lak6 mat6) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

托勒密 (tok3 lak6 mat6, Tuō lè mì) — Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC; Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成; see also 托勒玫[Tuo1 le4 mei2]

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 托塔都應承 (tok3 taap3 dou1 jing1 sing4) — an expression which means 'to agree with anything asked by another, regardless …
• 托大腳 (tok3 daai6 goek3) — (verb) to butter up; to flatter (usually one's boss)
• 托手踭 (tok3 sau2 zaang1) — to reject; to turn down a request
• 托 (tok3) — to hold up; prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hol…
• 托故 (tok3 gu3) — to make up excuses to do something; to find an excuse to do something
• 托水龍 (tok3 seoi2 lung4) — to embezzle; to pocket the client's money

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