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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *比* | 比* | *比
to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
HSK 1
for example / for instance / such as
HSK 2
for example
HSK 2
competition (sports etc) / match / CL: 場|场, / to compete
HSK 3
to compare / to contrast / comparatively / relatively / quite / comparison
HSK 3
proportion / scale
HSK 3
to compare
HSK 3
score (of a game or competition)
HSK 4
to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
proportion / specific gravity
HSK 5
analogy / instance / for instance
HSK 5
percentage
HSK 7-9
can't compare with
HSK 7-9
to compare / to liken to / metaphor / analogy / figure of speech / figuratively
HSK 7-9
can be found everywhere
HSK 7-9
to be just like; can be compared to
HSK 7-9
to have a competition / to measure with one's hand or arm / to make a gesture of measuring
HSK 7-9
compared with
HSK 7-9
cost-performance ratio
HSK 7-9
incomparable; matchless
HSK 7-9
by comparison
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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Belgium / Belgian / abbr. for 比利時|比利时
BYD Company (company name)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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euphemistic variant of
(statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year; year on year; year over year
Namibia
Colombia / Columbia (District of, or University etc)
ratio
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
to compare / to draw a parallel / to match / analogy / metaphor / comparison
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
ratio; rate; proportion
Liberia
to compare prices; to compare offers / price ratio; price parity; rate of exchange
Barbie
Caribbean
bikini (loanword)
to liken to / to compare to
parallelism (rhetoric) / to arrange things alongside each other
bit (binary digit) (loanword)
to compete fiercely / contest
Shakespeare (name) / William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
Ethiopia
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
Buddhist monk (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksu")
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
(sports) (loanword) derby (contest between local rivals)
rupee (Indian currency) (loanword)
analogy / (Tw) (electronics) analog
Leipzig, city in the state of Saxony, Germany
to make invidious comparisons / to compete with / to emulate
Belgium
incomparable
Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom) / Long may you live!
martial arts competition / tournament / to compete in a contest
to evaluate (by comparison)
Dolby (audio technology)
Mississippi
Bill (name)
Mozambique
Babylon
inversely proportional / inverse ratio
to gesture / to gesticulate / to practice the moves of a martial art by imitating the teacher / to fight / to come to blows
geometric (of mathematical sequences or progressions)
Libya
barbitone / barbital
according to / in the light of / contrast
(literary) next-door neighbor / near; next to / Taiwan pr. [bi4lin2]
Guinea-Bissau
row upon row
Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)
(literary) when / by the time / Taiwan pr. [bi4 ji2]
to put oneself in sb else's shoes (idiom)
(flying) wing to wing
(idiom) things are very different now; times have changed
comparable
Zambia
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚
Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French composer
(Tw) Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
(loanword) peso (monetary unit)
Gambia
Sotheby's auction house
direct ratio / directly proportional
lit. a pair of birds flying close together (idiom) / fig. two hearts beating as one / name of a sweet and sour chicken wing dish
Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
neither the best nor the worst; not too bad; better than some
Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan
(idiom) very big; huge
to be shoulder to shoulder / (fig.) to be as good as; to match / Taiwan pr. [bi4 jian1]
to draw a parallel
extremely ugly / incomparably hideous
compound ratio
to fly wing to wing (idiom) / two hearts beating as one / (of a couple) inseparable
Pyrenees mountains
(literary) every year; year after year / (literary) in recent years / Taiwan pr. [bi4 nian2]
Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
Abidjan (city in Ivory Coast)

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