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basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
fund
HSK 5
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
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
wiki (Internet)
methyl group (chemistry)
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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
amino acid
amino / amino group
al-Qaeda
foundations (of a building) / base
base station
to ascend the throne
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
base solvent (of chemical compound) / stroma (framing biological tissue)
Burkina Faso
(civil engineering) roadbed
Kiribati
Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督 or 基利士督)
ethyl group (chemistry)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Renaissance painter and sculptor
phenyl group
hydroxyl group -OH
Eskimo
to lay a foundation
Nokia (company name)
alkyl
propyl group (chemistry)
underlay / foundation / pedestal
Ding Ji (1917-1944), real name Li Baicen 李百岑, journalist based in Yanan, martyr of the revolution
butyl group (chemistry)
bikini (loanword)
carboxyl group -COOH
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
substrate
Kiel (German city)
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
bedrock
Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔, Heilongjiang
substrate
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
Vladimir
radical (chemistry)
baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle)
Henry Kissinger (1923-2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973-1977
foundation / footing / base / ruins (of a historical building)
Pakistan
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
foundation / base / family estate
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
base electrode (in transistor)
Kentucky, US state
base fertilizer
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
Nicole Kidman (1967-), film actress
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Kigali, capital of Rwanda
Carthage
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
stylobate (architecture)
Polanski (name)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
fundamental tone
Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), semi-official organization established by the ROC government in Taiwan
Chişinău or Chisinau, capital of Moldova
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian poet and dramatist
Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
(slang) to engage in male homosexual practices
Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
footing / pedestal
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
Brzezinski (name) / Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981
chemical base / nucleobase
(psychology) schema
alkoxy (chemistry)
see 搞基
Loki, god of fire and mischievous destroyer in Norse mythology
plinth; base; substrate
base body / matrix / substrate
ketone group
Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫|刘伯温 (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, with a reputation as a military genius
genetic modification

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