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base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
fund
HSK 5
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
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
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
Human Genome Project
Michelangelo (Tw)
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
genetic modification
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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)
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
ethyl group (chemistry)
common erroneous form of 朱鎔基|朱镕基, Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003
elementary education
vinyl / vinyl group (chemistry)
the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism
basic word
mutual fund
culture medium
Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督 or 基利士督)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
genetic mutation
Uncyclopedia (satirical website parodying Wikipedia)
gene technology
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
natural science fund
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
foundation
HSK 7-9
socio-economic base / economic foundation
gene bank
Wikimedia Foundation
gene therapy
amino transferase (enzyme)
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
to ascend the throne
(chemistry) butyl group
Zhongshan or Chungshan District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan / Zhongshan District of Dalian 大連市|大连市, Liaoning / Chungshan District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
Christian denomination
military base
venture capital fund
basic concept
Protestantism
Eskimo
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)
World Wildlife Fund WWF
bedrock
infrastructure
genetic engineering
basic law (constitutional document)
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
base station
Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) / abbr. to 海基會|海基会
Al-Qaeda
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
cardinal numeral
fundamental theorem
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇, reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基, reigned 712-756
a Christian
exchange-traded fund (ETF)
Tuzki, a Chinese cartoon rabbit character used in emoticons and stickers, created in 2006
foundations (of a building) / base
plinth; base; substrate
Christian
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
hedge fund
New York Yankees (US baseball team)
theoretical foundation
infrastructure
underlying medical condition
Wikistats, (stats.wikimedia.org), online tool providing statistics for Wikimedia projects
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
al-Qaeda
accruals basis (accounting)
personal name of seventh Tang emperor Xuanzong 唐玄宗 (685-762), reigned 712-756
Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
radical (chemistry)
base / foundation / (Tw) (geology) bedrock
air base
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
base fertilizer
Zhongzheng District of Taipei 台北市 or Keelung 基隆市
elementary particle (particle physics)
key point; crux / (finance) basis point, abbr. to 基點|基点
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Christian democratic party
base pairing (e.g. adenine A 腺嘌呤 pairs with thymine T 胸腺嘧啶 in DNA) / base pair
Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan / Hsinyi District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan
(chemistry) substituent
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine

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