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HSK
sunny and cloudless
HSK 5
to read aloud
HSK 5
to read aloud with expression / to recite / to declaim
HSK 7-9
spacious and well-lit / open and clear / (of character) optimistic / cheerful / carefree
HSK 7-9
robust / healthy
HSK 7-9
bright / clear / obvious / forthright / open-minded / bright and cheerful
HSK 7-9
(loanword) rum
Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
surname Armstrong
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伊* | 伊* | *伊
surname Yi / abbr. for 伊拉克, Iraq / abbr. for 伊朗, Iran
Longman (name)
The Bronx, borough of New York City
Iran
clear and bright / unclouded / clear and sonorous (voice) / clear and lively (narrative)
Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010
colón (currency of Costa Rica and former currency of El Salvador)
François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, president of France 2012-2017 / also written 奧朗德|奥朗德
Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Mount Everest (abbr. for 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰)
Dan Brown (American novelist)
Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory
Mount Everest (from its Tibetan name, Chomolungma)
Mount Everest (abbr. for 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰) / Zhushan, district of Jingdezhen City 景德鎮市|景德镇市, Jiangxi
(loanword) rum (alcoholic beverage)
krone (currency of Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden) (loanword)
Mount Everest (from its Tibetan name, Chomolungma)
clear and bright (of weather) / straightforward / candid / open
suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing / fig. everything becomes clear at once / to achieve speedy enlightenment
Swiss franc
Franco (name) / Generalissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975), Spanish dictator and head of state 1939-1975
Browning, US firearm brand
(Tw) (loanword) flamenco
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *朗* | 朗* | *朗
clear / bright
to shine brightly / (fig.) to perceive clearly
Lang Lang (1982-), Chinese concert pianist
Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist
Donald Trump (1946–), American businessman and politician, US president 2017–2021 and 2025– / see also 背後捅刀|背后捅刀 and 落井下石
Donald Trump (informal alternative to 特朗普) / (linguistics) Sichuan-accented Mandarin (abbr. for 四川普通話|四川普通话) / see also 背後捅刀|背后捅刀 and 落井下石
brownie (pastry) (loanword)
sirloin (loanword)
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist
loud and clear / bright and clear
Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Klondike in northwest Canada
Mont Blanc (between Italy and France)
Blang people, one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the PRC
(physics) Brownian motion
Erlangen (town in Bavaria)
Portuguese (Ming era loanword)
(physics) Planck's constant h, approximately 6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ joule.seconds
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist who first postulated quantization of energy
Otranto city on the southeast heel of Italy
Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang and Dai Autonomous County in Lincang 臨滄|临沧, Yunnan
Anders Jonas Angstrom or Ångström (1814-1874), Swedish physicist
Talleyrand (name) / Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French diplomat
Miyazaki Gorō (1967-), Japanese film director
Mitterrand
The Bronx, borough of New York City / Bronx County (coextensive with The Bronx) / also written 布朗士
MORI Yoshirō (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes
Guardian Council of the Constitution of Iran
Western (and so styled) cannon of the Ming era
Yuen Long town in northwest New Territories, Hong Kong
Yuen Long town, Hong Kong Island
François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, president of France 2012-2017
Strait of Otranto between the heel of Italy and Albania
The Bronx, borough of New York City / Bronx County (coextensive with The Bronx) / also written 布朗克斯
to recite in a loud, clear voice
to flow right off the tongue (of lyrics or poetry) / to recite with ease / catchy (of a song)
sirloin steak
Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Renaissance painter and sculptor
D'Alembert (1717-1783), French mathematician
Lilongwe, capital of Malawi (Tw)
Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋, 朗姆酒, 奶昔 and 米老鼠)


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