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HSK
almost on a par
(bird species of China) southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
Job (name) / Book of Job in the Old Testament
Apert syndrome
Arabian Sea
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
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
Birmingham
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
Khyber pass (between Pakistand and Afghanistan)
earl / count / earldom or countship (old)
(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
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
Siberia
Saudi Arabia
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father) / old friend
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
Webb, Webber or Weber (name)
weber (unit of magnetic flux, Wb)
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
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿 / also written 阿爾伯塔|阿尔伯塔
(name) Abraham / Abraham, Biblical patriarch regarded as the founder of monotheism
(old) Arabia
father's elder brother / uncle
HSK 7-9
Bern or Berne, capital of Switzerland (Tw)
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Robert (name)
Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022-
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
Hebrew
Hebrew (language)
Mark Zuckerberg (1984-), American computer programer, co-founder and CEO of Facebook
uncle (polite form of address for older male)
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
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
Jobs (name) / see also 史提夫·賈伯斯|史提夫·贾伯斯, Steve Jobs
Bethlehem (in the biblical nativity story)
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
butcher / fig. brutal killer
(bird species of China) Vega gull (Larus vegae)
shrike (family Laniidae)
Bloomsbury, London district
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
Shaobo Lake, freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province
father's father's brother's wife / great aunt
shrike
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
Belize
father's father's brother / great uncle
Zerubbabel (son of Shealtiel)
Saudi Arabia (Tw)
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
Dorbod Mongol Autonomous County, in Daqing City 大慶市|大庆市, Heilongjiang
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, Canada
Bethsaida, settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee mentioned in the New Testament
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
to ask for assistance
Philip
Zebedee (name)
Arabian Peninsula
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿
Jacob (name) / Saint James
(bird species of China) Burmese shrike (Lanius collurioides)
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), German physicist
(bird species of China) northern shrike (Lanius borealis)
Gilbert (name)
Middlebury (College)
Robertson (name)
grandpa (polite form of address for old man)
neighborhood warden
a Hebrew
Epistle of St Paul to the Hebrews
(bird species of China) steppe grey shrike (Lanius pallidirostris)
Wei Boyang (c. 100-170), Chinese author and alchemist
Peter (Catholic transliteration)
Robespierre (name) / Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794
Bertha (name)
Gilbert's syndrome
fool / dolt / clumsy oaf
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
Klebsiella
Liberman, Lieberman or Liebermann (name)
Halliburton (US construction company)
Canterbury
Novosibirsk (city in Russia)
The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
(bird species of China) red-tailed shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)

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