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British Broadcasting Corporation / BBC
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
Tesco, British-based supermarket chain
United Kingdom (UK); Britain
Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940)
British Petroleum, BP
British Museum
Sino-British / Chinese-English
Britain / British / Great Britain
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
British Isles
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984
Great Britain
British telecom / BT
British person; British people
silver British shorthair (cat)
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale)
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
British-style; English-style
Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
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  *英* | 英* | *英
United Kingdom / British / England / English / abbr. for 英國|英国
(loanword) ounce (British imperial system)
Isle of Man, British Isles (Tw) / see also 馬恩島|马恩岛
Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer / Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist
British accent
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源 / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia)
(name) Keynes / John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia
Chris Patten (1944-), last British Governor of Hong Kong 1992-1997
British shorthair (abbr. for 英國短毛貓|英国短毛猫)
Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The Search for Modern China 追尋現代中國|追寻现代中国
British Commonwealth of Nations (Tw)
Orwell (name) / George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 一九八四年
Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
Daying county in Suining 遂寧|遂宁, Sichuan / Great Britain
Cook (name) / Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
British Petroleum, BP
Montserrat (Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory)
British Columbia, province of Canada (loanword from "BC")
Nelson or Nillson (name) / Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
Huxley (name) / Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin / Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist
British Broadcasting Corporation / BBC
British Empire
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
Emma Watson (1990-), British actress
British colonial administration of Hong Kong 1837-1941 and 1945-1997
Rock Records, Taiwanese record label / the Rolling Stones, British rock band / Rolling Stone (magazine)
Berkeley (name) / George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, famous British philosopher / Berkeley, university city in the San Francisco bay area, California
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒
Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887–1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname)
Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
golden British shorthair (cat)
"Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆)
Banksy (British street artist)
Vanessa-Mae (1978–), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier
Sir Edward Youde (1924-1986), British diplomat, ambassador to Beijing 1974-1978, governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986
Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
Russell (name) / Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist
British style (fashion)
AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company)
stone (British unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (about 6.3 kilograms))
name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)
British Isles
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
(name) Branson or Brandsen / Sir Richard Branson (1950–), British billionaire and founder of the Virgin Group
Rabaul, port city and capital of New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
Wittgenstein (name) / Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-British philosopher
British army
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 泰坦尼克號|泰坦尼克号
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain / Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925–2022), British theater director
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore
MI6 (British military intelligence agency)
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
MI5 (British military counterintelligence office)
FTSE (British provider of stock exchange indices such as FTSE 100)
Jung Chang (1952-), British-Chinese writer, name at birth Zhang Erhong 張二鴻|张二鸿, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事
Waley or Whaley (name) / Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist
British Council
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), British economist
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
British Virgin Islands
(name) Attenborough / David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster

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