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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 / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
Xibo ethnic group of northeast China
Arabian Sea
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
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
father's elder brother / uncle
HSK 7-9
Birmingham
Stonehenge / Salisbury stone circle
lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent / nothing to choose between them
Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
Belize
earl / count / earldom or countship (old)
(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
Saudi Arabia
Hebrew
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father) / old friend
(name) Berger / Samuel Berger, former US National Security Advisor under President Carter
Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and the elder brother of King Wu 周武王 who was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝 of ancient China
Berkeley
Krupp
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿 / also written 阿爾伯塔|阿尔伯塔
Chen Boda (1904-1989), communist party theorist, interpreter of Maoism
Hubble Space Telescope
Bern or Berne, capital of Switzerland (Tw)
assistance that one gets from another
Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022-
Gilbert (name)
Bayan (name) / Bayan of the Baarin (1236-1295), Mongol Yuan general under Khubilai Khan, victorious over the Southern Song 1235-1239 / Bayan of the Merkid (-1340), Yuan dynasty general and politician
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
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
husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
Mark Zuckerberg (1984-), American computer programer, co-founder and CEO of Facebook
St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Arab Common Market
Khyber pass (between Pakistand and Afghanistan)
uncle (polite form of address for older male)
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
Siberia
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one hundred (old)
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  *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
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
a Hebrew
ThyssenKrupp
butcher / fig. brutal killer
Abe (short form for Abraham) / Abel, a figure of Jewish, Christian and Muslim mythologies
Hebrew (language)
David Hilbert (1862–1943), German mathematician
Li Boyuan or Li Baojia 李寶嘉|李宝嘉 (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記|官场现形记
Beelzebub
Shaobo Lake, freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province
Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
father's father's brother's wife / great aunt
neighborhood warden
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
Maspero (name)
father's father's brother / great uncle
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
almost on a par
shrike
The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
(bird species of China) brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)
Jobs (name) / see also 史提夫·賈伯斯|史提夫·贾伯斯, Steve Jobs
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Bertrand (name)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
to ask for assistance
(bird species of China) Chinese grey shrike (Lanius sphenocercus)
Bethlehem (in the biblical nativity story)
Peter (Catholic transliteration)
Philip
(bird species of China) northern shrike (Lanius borealis)
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, writer and artist
Salisbury plain
gum arabic / acacia gum
Feng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition / also called 馮武|冯武
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
Jacob (name) / Saint James
Libreville, capital of Gabon
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), German physicist
grandpa (polite form of address for old man)
Chamberlain (name) / Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), US basketball player
Zerubbabel (son of Shealtiel)
Robert (name)
(bird species of China) isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus)
Xi Xiaobo (1910-1977), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生
Novosibirsk, city in Russia
Webb, Webber or Weber (name)
weber (unit of magnetic flux, Wb)
(old) Arabia
Bertha (name)
Gilbert's syndrome
Halliburton (US construction company)

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