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basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
fund
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
foundation
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
fundamental theorem
Minkowski (name) / Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), German mathematician
cardinal numeral
gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, GHB
wiki (Internet)
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  *基* | 基* | *基
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
cardinal number / (math.) radix / base
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
al-Qaeda
Milwaukee (city)
elementary particle (particle physics)
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
basal cell carcinoma
basic word
Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea
(civil engineering) roadbed
phenyl group
hydroxyl group -OH
to lay a foundation
alkyl
propyl group (chemistry)
Rocky Mountains in West US and Canada
(chemistry) butyl group
(slang) (of online friends) to meet up in person
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
carboxyl group -COOH
Carthage
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
Kiel (German city)
base electrode (in transistor)
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
substrate
recessive gene
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
bedrock
amino / amino group
substrate
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
glucosamine (C6H13NO5)
land-based
base; centre / basis; point of departure; starting point / (finance) basis point
radical (chemistry)
baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle)
foundation / footing / base / ruins (of a historical building)
Pakistan
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
foundation / base / family estate
exchange-traded fund (ETF)
New York Yankees (US baseball team)
Kentucky, US state
foundations (of a building) / base
dimercaprol
base fertilizer
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
the anti-Christ
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
Wikipedia (online encyclopedia)
Nicole Kidman (1967-), film actress
underlay / foundation / pedestal
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Kiribati
culture medium
Zhu Zhanji, personal name of fifth Ming emperor Xuande 宣德
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
equality ration fund, a charitable investment fund that can be drawn down in proportion to further donations
Chişinău or Chisinau, capital of Moldova
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
paraben (chemistry)
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
stylobate (architecture)
basic law (constitutional document)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
Polanski (name)
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
fundamental tone
Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), semi-official organization established by the ROC government in Taiwan
Palikir, capital of the Federated States of Micronesia
Spassky (name)
Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
bikini (loanword)
(slang) to engage in male homosexual practices

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