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HSK
nylon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
Tasmania
Mauritania
Indonesia (abbr. for 印度尼西亞|印度尼西亚)
Venice / Venezia
Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia
Nigeria
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
Richard Nixon (1913–1994), US president 1969–1974 / surname Nixon
Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
Indonesia
San Antonio, Texas
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼 founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼|岚毗尼, 臘伐尼|腊伐尼, 林微尼)
New Caledonia
(meteorology) El Niño
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *释* | 释* | *释
to explain / to release / Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / Buddhism
Nice (city in France)
Indonesian language
French Polynesia
Caledonia
Bologna
nylon buckle / velcro
Polynesia
Kennedy (name) / J.F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US Democrat politician, president 1961-1963
Wenbu or Ombu village in Nyima county 尼瑪縣|尼玛县, Nagchu prefecture, central Tibet / Tang dynasty equivalent of 吏部, personnel office
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *尼* | 尼* | *尼
Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)
Estonia
Nissan, Japanese car make / also transliterated 尼桑
Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
honey (term of endearment) (loanword)
pfennig (monetary unit) (loanword)
Bern, capital of Switzerland
California
Sony
damping
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, Canada
Daniel (name)
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), wartime predecessor of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那
West Virginia, US state
Romania
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
Slovenia
Tanzania
Tasmania
incantation (Sanskrit: dharani) / religious chant (promoting virtue and obstructing evil)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1846–1900), German philosopher
Disney, American entertainment conglomerate / Walt Disney (1901–1966), American animator and film producer
Armenia
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼)
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
the Nile (river in northeastern Africa)
Heineken (Dutch brewing company) / see also 海尼根
Jonê, a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州, Gansu
Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged / the Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼, Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas")
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
Anthony (name)
University of Manila
Pennsylvania
Nissan, Japanese car make
Trinidad
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Armani (fashion designer)
Buddhist nun
Manila, capital of Philippines
Nîmes (city in France)
Phoenix, capital of Arizona / also 鳳凰城|凤凰城
Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy (1929-1994)
Nicaragua
Nielsen or Nelson (name)
(name) Tony
Hennessy (cognac)
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet in the 1920s
Panipat, ancient city in India
Niger (country in West Africa) / Niger River, West Africa
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni")
Winnie the Pooh
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
Pennsylvania / abbr. for 賓夕法尼亞州|宾夕法尼亚州
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist and composer
Tunisia / Tunis, capital of Tunisia
Nepal
Tasmania (Tw)
Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
Indonesian language
Nisu (language)
Neanderthal (abbr. for 尼安德特人)
Kenya
Albania
Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis
Albany, New York
Virginia, US state (Tw)
Dennis (name)
Neanderthal man

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