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HSK
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
basic / fundamental / main / elementary
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
fund
HSK 5
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
Christianity / Christian
HSK 6
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
basic skills / fundamentals
HSK 7-9
Human Genome Project
Michelangelo (Tw)
(surveying) datum / standard; criterion; benchmark
HSK 7-9
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
genetic modification
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(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
ethyl group (chemistry)
common erroneous form of 朱鎔基|朱镕基, Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003
elementary education
vinyl / vinyl group (chemistry)
the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism
basic word
mutual fund
culture medium
Christ (abbr. for 基利斯督 or 基利士督)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
genetic mutation
Uncyclopedia (satirical website parodying Wikipedia)
gene technology
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
natural science fund
KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken
foundation
HSK 7-9
socio-economic base / economic foundation
gene bank
Wikimedia Foundation
gene therapy
amino transferase (enzyme)
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
to ascend the throne
(chemistry) butyl group
basic level / grassroots unit / basement layer
HSK 7-9
Christian denomination
military base
venture capital fund
basic concept
Protestantism
Eskimo
World Wildlife Fund WWF
bedrock
infrastructure
genetic engineering
basic law (constitutional document)
base station
Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) / abbr. to 海基會|海基会
Al-Qaeda
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
cardinal numeral
fundamental theorem
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
a Christian
exchange-traded fund (ETF)
Tuzki, a Chinese cartoon rabbit character used in emoticons and stickers, created in 2006
foundations (of a building) / base
plinth; base; substrate
Christian
main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech)
hedge fund
New York Yankees (US baseball team)
theoretical foundation
infrastructure
underlying medical condition
Wikistats, (stats.wikimedia.org), online tool providing statistics for Wikimedia projects
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
al-Qaeda
accruals basis (accounting)
personal name of seventh Tang emperor Xuanzong 唐玄宗 (685-762), reigned 712-756
Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
radical (chemistry)
base / foundation / (Tw) (geology) bedrock
air base
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
Chilung or Keelung, city and major port in north Taiwan
base fertilizer
elementary particle (particle physics)
key point; crux / (finance) basis point, abbr. to 基點|基点
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003
Christian democratic party
base pairing (e.g. adenine A 腺嘌呤 pairs with thymine T 胸腺嘧啶 in DNA) / base pair
substituent (chemistry)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Kyiv or Kiev, capital of Ukraine
Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general 2007-2016
free radical
Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
genetic modification
wiki (Internet)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 / also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基
fund investor / (coll.) gay person

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