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United Kingdom (UK); Britain
Russell (name) / Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist
ounce (British imperial system) (loanword)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher and political scientist, member of British Parliament
Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
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  *英* | 英* | *英
United Kingdom / British / England / English / abbr. for 英國|英国
Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
(Tw) Handel (name) / George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born British composer
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
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
P.A.M. Dirac (1902-1984), British physicist
Sino-British / Chinese-English
Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
Daying county in Suining 遂寧|遂宁, Sichuan / Great Britain
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)
Rock Records, Taiwanese record label / the Rolling Stones, British rock band / Rolling Stone (magazine)
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)
British-style; English-style
AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company)
(name) Keynes / John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia
surname Raffles / Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore
Tesco, British-based supermarket chain
Britain / British / Great Britain
Cook (name) / Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925–2022), British theater director
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887–1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname)
Great Britain
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain / Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist
British army
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Huxley (name) / Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin / Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist
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  *煐* | 煐* | *煐
(used in names) / British thermal unit (BTU)
British Petroleum, BP
governor of Hong Kong (during the period of British rule, 1841-1997)
Berkeley (name) / George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, famous British philosopher / Berkeley, university city in the San Francisco bay area, California
British imperial ounce (old)
"Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆)
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  *唡* | 唡* | *唡
ounce (British imperial system) (old)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Vanessa-Mae (1978–), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier
golden British shorthair (cat)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
silver British shorthair (cat)
British shorthair (abbr. for 英國短毛貓|英国短毛猫)
British Museum
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
GlaxoSmithKline, British pharmaceutical company
British person; British people
Isle of Man, British Isles (Tw) / see also 馬恩島|马恩岛
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
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
Guo Songtao (1818–1891), Chinese statesman and diplomat, served as minister to Britain and minister to France 1877–1879
Montserrat (Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory)
Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer / Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist
FTSE (British provider of stock exchange indices such as FTSE 100)
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave New World 美麗新世界|美丽新世界
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
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
Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere
British Petroleum, BP
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist known for his expeditions to Central Asia
Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system
Higgs (name) / Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson to explain the mass of elementary particles
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), British economist
MI5 (British military counterintelligence office)
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system
(name) Attenborough / David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 泰坦尼克號|泰坦尼克号
Joseph Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist and author of Science and Civilization in China
Nelson or Nillson (name) / Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940)
MI6 (British military intelligence agency)
Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun
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
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
Boyle (name) / Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist
Bren gun, British light machine gun first produced in 1937
Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
Chris Patten (1944-), last British Governor of Hong Kong 1992-1997
New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
British Isles
British Columbia, province of Canada (loanword from "BC")
David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster
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
British style (fashion)
British Council
British Commonwealth of Nations
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
British Isles

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