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HSK
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
fund
HSK 5
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
foundation
HSK 7-9
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
foundation (institution supported by an endowment)
ultrabasic rock (geology, rock containing less than 45 percent silicates)
Kentucky, US state
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
ketone group
Consumers' Foundation, Chinese Taipei (CFCT) (abbr. for 中華民國消費者文教基金會|中华民国消费者文教基金会)
peptide group / peptide unit
Burkina Faso
(slang) to engage in male homosexual practices
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
methoxy (chemistry)
amino transferase (enzyme)
(Internet slang) it's nothing, there's no need to compliment
genetic modification
sodium dimercaptosulfanate
Eskimo
Pakistan
alkyl
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
Loki, god of fire and mischievous destroyer in Norse mythology
underlay / foundation / pedestal
Kiribati
base / foundation / (Tw) (geology) bedrock
Jinuo ethnic group
wiki (Internet)
nitrobenzene / benzoil nitrate (chemistry)
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
al-Qaeda
Christian
air base
plinth; base; substrate
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Renaissance painter and sculptor
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(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
infrastructure
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
cardinal number / (math.) radix / base
mankini (loanword)
Kiel (German city)
genetic mutation
Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督 or 基利士督)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
land-based missile
to ascend the throne
military base
(Tw) amino acid
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
fundamental frequency
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
methamphetamine
bedrock
Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
culture medium
Quito, capital of Ecuador
elementary education
foundations (of a building) / base
Basic Competence Test for Junior High School Students (Tw), abbr. for 國民中學學生基本學力測驗|国民中学学生基本学力测验
kip (Laotian currency)
hydroxyl group -OH
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
asset that gives a competitive advantage; a strength / (market) niche
alkyl benzene / dodecylbenzene C18H30
Brzezinski (name) / Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981
mutual fund
socio-economic base / economic foundation
to lay foundations
Jesus Christ
basic course / core curriculum
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
Vladimir
Kentucky, US state
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
Chişinău or Chisinau, capital of Moldova
see 洋基隊|洋基队 / New York Yankees (US baseball team)
elementary particle (particle physics)
personal name of seventh Tang emperor Xuanzong 唐玄宗 (685-762), reigned 712-756
basic word
Antichrist
Polanski (name)
United Nations Children's Fund / UNICEF
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer

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