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HSK
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
fund
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
foundation
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
fundamental theorem
see 基友
Minkowski (name) / Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), German mathematician
cardinal numeral
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, GHB
wiki (Internet)
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  *基* | 基* | *基
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
cardinal number / (math.) radix / base
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
al-Qaeda
Milwaukee (city)
elementary particle (particle physics)
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
basal cell carcinoma
basic word
Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea
(civil engineering) roadbed
phenyl group
hydroxyl group -OH
to lay a foundation
alkyl
propyl group (chemistry)
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Rocky Mountains in West US and Canada
(chemistry) butyl group
(slang) (of online friends) to meet up in person
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
carboxyl group -COOH
Carthage
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
Kiel (German city)
base electrode (in transistor)
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
substrate
recessive gene
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
bedrock
amino / amino group
substrate
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, abbr. for 亞洲基礎設施投資銀行|亚洲基础设施投资银行
glucosamine (C6H13NO5)
land-based
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
radical (chemistry)
baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle)
foundation / footing / base / ruins (of a historical building)
Pakistan
Ren'ai or Jenai District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan / Ren'ai or Jenai Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
foundation / base / family estate
exchange-traded fund (ETF)
Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan / Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan / Xinyi or Hsinyi Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
New York Yankees (US baseball team)
Kentucky, US state
foundations (of a building) / base
dimercaprol
base fertilizer
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
the anti-Christ
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
Wikipedia (online encyclopedia)
Nicole Kidman (1967-), film actress
underlay / foundation / pedestal
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Kiribati
culture medium
Zhu Zhanji, personal name of fifth Ming emperor Xuande 宣德
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
equality ration fund, a charitable investment fund that can be drawn down in proportion to further donations
Chişinău or Chisinau, capital of Moldova
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
paraben (chemistry)
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
stylobate (architecture)
basic law (constitutional document)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
Polanski (name)
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
Roth, Ross, Rose or Rossi (name) / Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察 / Rus' (as in Kievan Rus' 基輔羅斯|基辅罗斯)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin

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