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HSK
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
fund
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
see 基友
cardinal numeral
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
wiki (Internet)
methyl group (chemistry)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
al-Qaeda
foundations (of a building) / base
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
base solvent (of chemical compound) / stroma (framing biological tissue)
(civil engineering) roadbed
Kiribati
phenyl group
hydroxyl group -OH
to lay a foundation
Nokia (company name)
alkyl
propyl group (chemistry)
Rocky Mountains in West US and Canada
(chemistry) butyl group
Anle District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan
(slang) (of online friends) to meet up in person
bikini (loanword)
carboxyl group -COOH
Carthage
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
substrate
Kiel (German city)
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
bedrock
amino / amino group
substrate
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, abbr. for 亞洲基礎設施投資銀行|亚洲基础设施投资银行
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
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
Ren'ai or Jenai District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan / Ren'ai or Jenai Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
foundation / base / family estate
Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan / Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan / Xinyi or Hsinyi Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
base electrode (in transistor)
Kentucky, US state
base fertilizer
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
Wikipedia (online encyclopedia)
Nicole Kidman (1967-), film actress
underlay / foundation / pedestal
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
stylobate (architecture)
Polanski (name)
Roth, Ross, Rose or Rossi (name) / Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察 / Rus' (as in Kievan Rus' 基輔羅斯|基辅罗斯)
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
base station
chemical base / nucleobase
Nuannuan District of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan
Al-Qaeda
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
(psychology) schema
alkoxy (chemistry)
see 搞基
Loki, god of fire and mischievous destroyer in Norse mythology
plinth; base; substrate
foundation piles
(Tw) amino acid

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