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Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
father's elder brother / uncle
HSK 7-9
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
Saudi Arabia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
one hundred (old)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, Canada
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
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Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022-
Siberia
Bole (a man who lived during Spring and Autumn Period, reputed to be able to spot a good horse) / a person who is good at spotting talent
Berkeley
husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
Bournemouth, UK
Birmingham
Robert (name)
Webb, Webber or Weber (name)
weber (unit of magnetic flux, Wb)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher and political scientist, member of British Parliament
Herbert (name)
earl / count / earldom or countship (old)
Bethlehem (in the biblical nativity story)
uncle (polite form of address for older male)
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer / Fritz Haber (1868-1934), German chemist
Hebrew
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
Roberts
Krupp
Chamberlain (name) / Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), US basketball player
Xibo ethnic group of northeast China
Carlsberg
Gilbert (name)
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿
(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆, Heilongjiang
Novosibirsk (city in Russia)
lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent / nothing to choose between them
almost on a par
David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
Job (name) / Book of Job in the Old Testament
(coll.) husband's elder brother
uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father) / old friend
Libreville, capital of Gabon
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist), author of Treasure Island 金銀島|金银岛
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
Arabic (language & writing)
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Halliburton (US construction company)
name or river God associated with Yellow river
(bird species of China) long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
Liberman, Lieberman or Liebermann (name)
Belize
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
fool / dolt / clumsy oaf
Bernanke (name) / Ben Shalom Bernanke (1953-), US economist, Chairman of the Federal Reserve 2006-2014
Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, with a reputation as a military genius, also called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基
Mark Zuckerberg (1984-), American computer programer, co-founder and CEO of Facebook
Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Canterbury
shrike
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and writer
Xibo ethnic group of northeast China
The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟
Khyber province of Pakistan / Northwest Frontier province
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), German physicist
Wei Boyang (c. 100-170), Chinese author and alchemist
Hebrew (language)
Bunbury, coastal city in Western Australia / Banbury, town in Oxfordshire, England
Justin Bieber (1994-), Canadian singer
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆, Heilongjiang
grandpa (polite form of address for old man)
Arabian Peninsula
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States
governor (of a province) / provincial chief (old)
Robespierre (name) / Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794
Bethsaida, settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee mentioned in the New Testament
Zerubbabel (son of Shealtiel)
gum arabic / acacia gum
a Saudi / Saudi Arabian person
a Hebrew
Arabian Sea
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
shrike (family Laniidae)
Bern or Berne, capital of Switzerland (Tw)
Blumberg or Bloomberg (name)
Philip
Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians
lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (proverb) / fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it
Gilbert's syndrome
Gilbert Islands

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